Latin Capital Letter V
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 86 on the numeric keypad to insert latin capital letter v.
- Alt code
- Alt+86
- HTML entity
- V
- Unicode
- U+0056
About this symbol
V comes from the Greek upsilon by way of the Etruscans. In Latin it stood for both u and the consonant w, and only in the sixteenth century did U and V become separate letters, V keeping the consonant.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Uppercase Latin alphabet
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.