Ư

Latin letter U with horn; used in Vietnamese

[ɨ]
[ɯ]

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U u

Ư ư

SistersỪừ, Ứứ, Ửử, Ữữ, ỰựVariationsU+, U*OtherThis article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Ư (lowercase ư) is one of the 12 Vietnamese language vowels. It is pronounced [ɨ] or [ɯ].^[1]

As with most special Vietnamese letters, this letter is not well-supported by fonts and is often typed as either u+ or u*. The VIQR standard is u+.

On the Windows default Vietnamese keyboard Ư can be found on where the [ key is on a US English keyboard layout.

Because Vietnamese is a tonal language this letter may optionally have any one of the five tonal symbols above or below it.

Ừ ừ
Ứ ứ
Ử ử
Ữ ữ
Ự ự

Character mappings

Character information
Preview	Ư		ư		Ừ		ừ
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH HORN		LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH HORN		LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH HORN AND GRAVE		LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH HORN AND GRAVE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	431	U+01AF	432	U+01B0	7914	U+1EEA	7915	U+1EEB
UTF-8	198 175	C6 AF	198 176	C6 B0	225 187 170	E1 BB AA	225 187 171	E1 BB AB
Numeric character reference	Ư	Ư	ư	ư	Ừ	Ừ	ừ	ừ
VISCII	191	BF	223	DF	187	BB	215	D7

Character information
Preview	Ứ		ứ		Ử		ử
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH HORN AND ACUTE		LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH HORN AND ACUTE		LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH HORN AND HOOK ABOVE		LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH HORN AND HOOK ABOVE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	7912	U+1EE8	7913	U+1EE9	7916	U+1EEC	7917	U+1EED
UTF-8	225 187 168	E1 BB A8	225 187 169	E1 BB A9	225 187 172	E1 BB AC	225 187 173	E1 BB AD
Numeric character reference	Ứ	Ứ	ứ	ứ	Ử	Ử	ử	ử
VISCII	186	BA	209	D1	188	BC	216	D8

Character information
Preview	Ữ		ữ		Ự		ự
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH HORN AND TILDE		LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH HORN AND TILDE		LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH HORN AND DOT BELOW		LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH HORN AND DOT BELOW
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	7918	U+1EEE	7919	U+1EEF	7920	U+1EF0	7921	U+1EF1
UTF-8	225 187 174	E1 BB AE	225 187 175	E1 BB AF	225 187 176	E1 BB B0	225 187 177	E1 BB B1
Numeric character reference	Ữ	Ữ	ữ	ữ	Ự	Ự	ự	ự
VISCII	255	FF	230	E6	185	B9	241	F1

References

^ "Unicode Character "Ư" (U+01AF)". Compart. Oak Brook, IL: Compart AG. 2021. Retrieved 2024-02-29.

Letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
Letter U with diacritics
Úú	Ùù	Ŭŭ	Ûû	Ǔǔ	Ůů	Üü	Ǘǘ	Ǜǜ	Ǚǚ	Ǖǖ	Űű	Ũũ	Ṹṹ	Ųų	Ų́ų́	Ų̃ų̃	Ūū	Ṻṻ	Ū̀ū̀	Ū́ū́	Ū̃ū̃	Ủủ	Ȕȕ	Ȗȗ	Ưư
Ứứ	Ừừ	Ữữ	Ửử	Ựự	Ụụ	Ṳṳ	Ṷṷ	Ṵṵ	Ʉʉ	Ꞹꞹ	Ꞿꞿ	ᶙ	ꭒ
Letters using horn sign ( ◌̛ )
Ơơ	Ưư