Latin Small Letter U
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 117 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter u.
- Alt code
- Alt+117
- HTML entity
- u
- Unicode
- U+0075
About this symbol
Early printers used u and v as two shapes of one letter: v at the start of a word and u in the middle, whatever the sound, so the King James Bible of 1611 prints vnto and haue. The modern rule, u for the vowel and v for the consonant, settled in English in the seventeenth century.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER U
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Lowercase 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.