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(Redirected from Latin upsilon)
Letter of the Latin alphabet
Not to be confused with upsilon.
Not to be confused with ℧, the symbol for the mho (an alternative name for the siemens, a unit of electric conductance).
For Japanese hiragana, see ひ.
Shapes of horseshoe as designed for the African reference alphabet, clearly based on a serifed shape of the Latin capital U.
The letter Ʊ (minuscule: ʊ), called horseshoe or sometimes bucket, inverted omega or Latin upsilon, is a letter of the International Phonetic Alphabet used to transcribe a near-close near-back rounded vowel. Graphically, the lower case is a turned small-capital Greek letter omega (Ω) in many typefaces (e.g. Arial, Calibri, Candara, Liberation, Lucida, Noto, Times New Roman), and historically it derives from a small-capital Latin U (ᴜ), with the serifs exaggerated to make them more visible. However, Geoffrey Pullum interpreted it as an IPA variant of the Greek letter upsilon (υ) and called it Latin upsilon, the name that would be adopted by Unicode, though in IPA an actual Greek upsilon is also used for the voiced labiodental approximant; Pullum called this letter script V and Unicode calls it V with hook.
Ou (ligature), the Greek ligature of omicron (ο) and upsilon (υ), sometimes written as (℧)
References
Small-cap ⟨ᴜ⟩ was rounded to modern ⟨ʊ⟩ in 1904, but continued with its original shape in Americanist usage.Association phonétique internationale (1904). "Aim and Principles of the International Phonetic Association". Le Maître Phonétique. 19 (11). Supplement. JSTOR44703664.
Alphabet des langues nationales béninoises (in French). Ministère de l’Alphabétisation et de la Promotion des langues nationales, Centre national de linguistique appliquée, Benin. 2008. OL25931062M.
