Everything about U totally explained
U is the twenty-first letter in the modern
Latin alphabet. Its name in
English is spelled
u .
History
During the late Middle Ages, two forms of
v or
u developed, which were both used for modern
u and
v. The pointed form
v was written at the beginning of a word, while a rounded form
u was used in the middle or end, regardless of sound. So whereas
valor and
excuse appeared as in modern printing, though
have and
upon were printed
haue and
vpon. Eventually, in the 1700s, to differentiate between the consonant and vowel sounds, the
v form was used to represent the consonant, and
u the vowel sound, giving the contemporary letter
u. Capital U appeared at this time; previously,
V was used in all cases. Initially, once the letters
u and
v were established as separate letters,
v preceded
u in the
alphabet; in modern times, this order has been reversed.
The letter
u was introduced into the Latin alphabet by
Petrus Ramus in the 16th century.
Codes for computing
In
Unicode the
capital U is codepoint U+0055 and the
lowercase u is U+0075.
The
ASCII code for capital U is 85 and for lowercase u is 117; or in
binary 01010101 and 01110101, correspondingly.
The
EBCDIC code for capital U is 228 and for lowercase u is 164.
The
numeric character references in
HTML and
XML are "
U" and "
u" for upper and lower case respectively.
Further Information
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