U

The u (uppercase U, noun u, plural úes) is the twenty-second letter of the alphabet Spanish, twenty-first of the basic Latin alphabet, the fifth and last vowel.

In Spanish it represents a closed and posterior vowel, being mute in the syllables: que, qui, gue, and gui. It is pronounced with the addition of umlauts in the last two examples above.

Palacio de Justicia de Lima, an example of registration that V uses instead of U.

History

It corresponds to the letter U of the Latin or Roman alphabet. Probable grapheme evolution:

Jeoglyphic (Fund U)	Proto-Semitic Waw	Fellowship Waw	Greek Ipsilon	Etrusco V	Latin V	Latin U

Alternative representations

In the aeronautical phonetic alphabet it is assigned the word Uniform. In Morse code it is: ··-

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