Ú, ú ( u- acute) is a

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letter used in the

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, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Karakalpak and Slovak writing systems. This letter also appears in

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as a variant of the letter " U".

Usage in various languages

Czech

Ú/ú is the 34th letter of the

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and represents a sound. It is always the first letter of the word except in compound words, such as " trojúhelník" triangle, which is composed of two words: " troj", which is derived from " tři" three, and " úhel", which means angle. If this sound is in the middle of the word, the letter Ů is used instead.

Dobrujan Tatar

Ú/ú is the 28th letter of

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, represents the hight rounded half-advanced ATR or soft vowel /ʉ/ as in "sút" ̶ʉt̶'milk'. In the vicinity of semivowel y, which occurs rarely, its articulation shifts to high rounded ATR or soft /y/, close to Turkish pronunciation, as in "súymek" ̶ym̶ec'to love'.

Faroese

Ú/ú is the 24th letter of the

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, and may represent the following sounds: * Short in such words as ''krúss'' ("mug", "coffee cup") * Short before in such words as ''kúgv'' ("cow"), but also in ''brúdleyp'' ("bridal") * Long diphthong in ''úti'' ("out"), ''hús'' ("house"), ''jú'' ("but"),

Hungarian

Ú/ú is the 36th letter of the

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and represents a sound.

Icelandic

Ú/ú is the 25th letter of the Icelandic alphabet, and represents a sound.

Javanese

Ú/ú is the letter of the

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, and represents a sound

Kazakh

It was proposed in 2018 that Ú/ú should be one of its

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, it should represent the near-close front rounded vowel () and is used to replace Cyrillic Ү. The replacement is modified to be Ü ü in 2020.

Karakalpak

Ú/ú is the 26th letter of the

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and represents near-close front rounded vowel.

Slovak

Ú/ú is the 39th letter of the

Slovak alphabet The first Slovak orthography was proposed and created by the Slovak Catholic priest Anton Bernolák (1762–1813) in his ''Dissertatio philologico-critica de litteris Slavorum'', used in the six-volume ''Slovak-Czech-Latin-German-Hungarian Dicti ...

and represents a sound.

Portuguese/Galician/Spanish/Catalan

In Portuguese, Galician, Spanish and Catalan, "ú" is not a distinct letter but a modified letter "u". It is used to denote an "u" with unusual stress.

Italian

Ú/ú is a variant of U carrying an acute accent; it represents an /u/ carrying the tonic accent. It is used only if it is the last letter of the word except in dictionaries.

Character encoding

References

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