U (Indic)
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U is a vowel of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, U is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter after having gone through the Gupta letter
. As an Indic vowel, U comes in two normally distinct forms: 1) as an independent letter, and 2) as a vowel sign for modifying a base consonant. Bare consonants without a modifying vowel sign have the inherent "A" vowel.
Quick Facts Example glyphs, Bengali–Assamese ...
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Example glyphs | |
Bengali–Assamese | ![]() |
Tibetan | ![]() |
Tamil | ![]() |
Malayalam | ഉ |
Sinhala | උ |
Ashoka Brahmi | ![]() |
Devanagari | ![]() |
Cognates | |
Hebrew | ו |
Greek | Ϝ (Ϛ), Υ (Ȣ) |
Latin | F, V, U, W, Y, Ⅎ |
Cyrillic | Ѕ, У (Ꙋ), Ѵ, Ю |
Properties | |
Phonemic representation | /u/ /ʊ/ |
IAST transliteration | ū Ū |
ISCII code point | A8 (168) |
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