Closed U

Closed U
Closed U
Usage
Type	alphabetic
Language of origin	Unifon; Quechua (formerly);
Phonetic usage	/u/
History
Development	Υυ V ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Time period	1878, 1960–present
Other
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Closed U ⟨⟩ is a letter of the Latin script. It has a form of the letter U closed above with a horizontal bar.

Usage[edit]

Gavino Pacheco Zegarra used a closed U in his phonetic alphabet for writing the Quechua family of languages in the French translation of Ollantay published in 1878.^[1]

The Unifon alphabet uses a capital form of closed U.^{[dubious – discuss]}

Computing codes[edit]

This letter has not yet been encoded in Unicode, but U+2A4C ⩌ CLOSED UNION WITH SERIFS resembles a closed U.

Character information
Preview	⩌
Unicode name	CLOSED UNION WITH SERIFS
Encodings	decimal	hex
Unicode	10828	U+2A4C
UTF-8	226 169 140	E2 A9 8C
Numeric character reference	⩌	⩌
Named character reference	&ccups;

References[edit]

^ Pacheco Zegarra, Gavino (1878). Ollantaï. Paris: Maisonneuve [fr]. pp. cxlvi–cxlvii.

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[1] Pacheco Zegarra, Gavino (1878). Ollantaï. Paris: Maisonneuve [fr]. pp. cxlvi–cxlvii.

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