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Alternative forms
- v (numeral)
- V. (numeral, ordinal number)
Etymology
From the Etruscan letter 𐌖 (u, “u”), from the Ancient Greek letter Υ (U, “ypsilon”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤅 (w, “waw”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓏲. Doublet of Y and U.
Letter
V (lower case v)
- The twenty-second letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
See also
Numeral
V
Symbol
V
- The volt in the International System of Units.
- (chemistry) Symbol for vanadium.
- (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for valine
- (organic chemistry) The resin identification code for polyvinyl chloride, also PVC.
- (geometry) volume
- (set theory) Von Neumann universe
- (music) major dominant triad
- (linguistics) A wildcard for a vowel
- (Voice Quality Symbols) voice (modified for the kind of voice: 'nasal voice', 'harsh voice', etc.)
Gallery
- Letter styles
Uppercase and lowercase versions of V, in roman and italic type
Uppercase and lowercase V in Fraktur
See also
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Other representations of V:
Pronunciation
Letter
V (upper case, lower case v, plural Vs or V's)
- The twenty-second letter of the English alphabet, called vee and written in the Latin script.
Derived terms
See also
Noun
- (grammar) Abbreviation of vocative case.
- (linguistics) Abbreviation of verb.
- (euphemistic) Vagina.
- Abbreviation of vowel.
- Abbreviation of velocity.
- (slang, countable) Viagra.
- 2017, James Wharton, Something for the Weekend, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN:
- The unfortunate, and quite ironic, side effect of all these chemicals is a penis that refuses to budge. Steven has been handing out the Vs in abundance for as the long as boys have been high in his second-floor flat, two for a fiver.
- Anything shaped like a V; synonym: vee.
- 2022, Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, Picador, page 149:
- She watched him through the perfect V between the seats for the rest of the journey.
Derived terms
(velocity):
Preposition
V
- (stenoscript) Abbreviation of over, prefix over-.
Symbol
V
- (titular) Viscount
- (titular) Viscountess
References
- The New Penguin Dictionary of Abbreviations: from A to zz, Rosalind Fergusson. (Penguin Books, 2000), page 390/1
Pronunciation
Letter
V (upper case, lower case v)
- The twenty-second letter of the Afrikaans alphabet, written in the Latin script.
See also
Noun
Letter
V upper case (lower case v)
- The thirtieth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
See also
Pronunciation
Letter
V (upper case, lower case v)
- The twenty-third letter of the Basque alphabet, called uve and written in the Latin script.
Usage notes
- Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.
See also
Etymology
Pronunciation
- /v/, (German-based also) /f/, /ʋ/
Letter
V
- A letter in the German-based alphabet of Central Franconian.
- A letter in the Dutch-based alphabet of Central Franconian.
Usage notes
Systems for the use of V
- In the German-based spelling of Moselle Franconian, v is used instead of regular w or f only after the German cognate.
- In the German-based spelling of Ripuarian (without Aachen region), initial v is used as above, but internal v is the regular spelling for /v/.
- In Aachen and the Netherlands there is a threefold phonemic distinction between w /ʋ/, v /v/, f /f/, which the spelling reflects.
Doubling of V and use in the syllable coda
- In the German-based spelling, v is doubled after short vowels except in certain function words and when the letter is followed by another consonant within the word stem. In the syllable coda, the choice between v and f may be based on internal analogy, but more often follows the German cognate.
- In the Dutch-based spelling, v is doubled after short vowels. Coda v is automatically replaced with f.
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: wuk1
- Yale: wūk
- Cantonese Pinyin: wuk7
- Guangdong Romanization: wug1
- Sinological IPA (key): /wʊk̚⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Wu
Classifier
V
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, electricity) volt (unit of voltage)
Etymology 2
From Japanese VTuber (bui-chūbā) or English VTuber.
Pronunciation
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: wi1
- Yale: wī
- Cantonese Pinyin: wi1
- Guangdong Romanization: wi1
- Sinological IPA (key): /wiː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Wu
Noun
V
Derived terms
Etymology 3
From 微 (wēi), short for 微信 (Wēixìn, “WeChat”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄨㄟ
- Tongyong Pinyin: wei
- Wade–Giles: wei1
- Yale: wēi
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uei
- Palladius: вэй (vɛj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /weɪ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Wu
Verb
V
Etymology 4
Pronunciation 1
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): wi1 / fi1
- Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): bhui5
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 6vi; 1vi
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄨㄟ
- Tongyong Pinyin: wei
- Wade–Giles: wei1
- Yale: wēi
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uei
- Palladius: вэй (vɛj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /weɪ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: wi1 / fi1
- Yale: wī / fī
- Cantonese Pinyin: wi1 / fi1
- Guangdong Romanization: wi1 / fi1
- Sinological IPA (key): /wiː⁵⁵/, /fiː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Note: fi1 - Hong Kong only.
- Southern Min
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: bhui5
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: bûi
- Sinological IPA (key): /bui⁵⁵/
- (Teochew)
- Wu
Letter
V
- The twenty-second letter of the Latin alphabet.
Pronunciation 2
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, common)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄨㄟ
- Tongyong Pinyin: wei
- Wade–Giles: wei1
- Yale: wēi
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uei
- Palladius: вэй (vɛj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /weɪ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, official)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄪㄝ
- Tongyong Pinyin: vê
- Wade–Giles: veh1
- Yale: vē
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: vè
- Palladius: вэй (vɛj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /vɛ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, variant official)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄨㄝ
- Tongyong Pinyin: we
- Wade–Giles: weh1
- Yale: wē
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ue
- Palladius: вэ (vɛ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /wɛ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, common)+
Letter
V
- The twenty-second letter used in Pinyin.
Usage notes
- 《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard pronunciation for each letter. However, these pronunciations are rarely used in education, and another pronunciation is commonly used instead. In the case of V, 《汉语拼音方案》 defines its pronunciation as ㄪㄝ, using the initial ㄪ (vō /v/), which is obsolete in standard Mandarin. This is one of the only instances of the letter being used in standard Pinyin.
Pronunciation
Letter
V (capital, lowercase v)
- the twenty-second letter of the Dutch alphabet
See also
Pronunciation
Letter
V (upper case, lower case v)
- The twenty-seventh letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called vo and written in the Latin script.
See also
Etymology
The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and V for information on the development of the glyph itself. The letter was only rarely used prior to the 19th century, when it replaced W.
Letter
V (upper case, lower case v)
- The twenty-second letter of the Finnish alphabet, called vee and written in the Latin script.
Derived terms
compounds
See also
Etymology
For the origin of the letter, see v.
Orthography and pronunciation
Germanic f was pronounced [v] in some dialects of Middle High German and was predominantly spelt v. This voicing was later reversed stem-initially in most dialects and stem-internally in some (including Standard German). In inherited words, the spelling mostly switched back to f accordingly. This always happened before l, r, u, ü, but otherwise there remains a number of relicts. These are the prefix ver-, the words Frevel, Vater, Vetter, Vieh, viel, vier, Vogel, Volk, voll, von, vor, and their derivatives.
In native German proper nouns, initial V is always /f/, but the internal pronunciation is hard to predict and differs by region. For example, it is usually /f/ in northern German placenames (e.g. Hannover, Havel, Jever), but /v/ in western ones (e.g. Grevenbroich, Leverkusen, Overath).
V was retained in words of foreign origin and its pronunciation varied. The contemporary standard is normally /v/, but always /f/ in Eva, Vau, Veilchen, Veit, Vettel, Vlies, Vogt. The words Vers, Vesper, Vize have /f/ in Germany, but usually /v/ in Austria. Both ways are de-facto standard in Evangelium, hieven, Larve, Nerven, Pulver (though dictionaries may recognise only one form or the other).
Pronunciation
Letter
V (upper case, lower case v)
- The twenty-second letter of the German alphabet, called Vau and written in the Latin script.
Pronunciation
Letter
V (upper case, lower case v)
- The thirty-eighth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called vé and written in the Latin script.
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | V | V-k |
| accusative | V-t | V-ket |
| dative | V-nek | V-knek |
| instrumental | V-vel | V-kkel |
| causal-final | V-ért | V-kért |
| translative | V-vé | V-kké |
| terminative | V-ig | V-kig |
| essive-formal | V-ként | V-kként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | V-ben | V-kben |
| superessive | V-n | V-ken |
| adessive | V-nél | V-knél |
| illative | V-be | V-kbe |
| sublative | V-re | V-kre |
| allative | V-hez | V-khez |
| elative | V-ből | V-kből |
| delative | V-ről | V-kről |
| ablative | V-től | V-ktől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
V-é | V-ké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
V-éi | V-kéi |
| Possessive forms of V | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | V-m | V-im |
| 2nd person sing. | V-d | V-id |
| 3rd person sing. | V-je | V-i |
| 1st person plural | V-nk | V-ink |
| 2nd person plural | V-tek | V-itek |
| 3rd person plural | V-jük | V-ik |
See also
- (Latin-script letters) betű; A a, Á á, B b, C c, Cs cs, D d, Dz dz, Dzs dzs, E e, É é, F f, G g, Gy gy, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, Ly ly, M m, N n, Ny ny, O o, Ó ó, Ö ö, Ő ő, P p, R r, S s, Sz sz, T t, Ty ty, U u, Ú ú, Ü ü, Ű ű, V v, Z z, Zs zs. Only in the extended alphabet: Q q W w X x Y y. Commonly used: ch. Also defined: à ë. In surnames (selection): ä aa cz ds eé eö ew oe oó th ts ÿ.
Letter
V (lower case v)
- The twenty-sixth letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.
See also
Pronunciation
Letter
V (lower case v)
- The twenty-second letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.
See also
Letter
V (upper case, lower case v)
- The nineteenth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.
Derived terms
See also
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