"Ü", or "ü", is a glyph which represents either a letter from several extended The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world, the standard script of the English language and most of the languages of western and central Europe, and of those areas settled by Europeans. ...Latin alphabets, the letter U is the twenty_first letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ...U with This page is about punctuation. ...umlaut, or a letter U with In linguistics, a diaeresis or dieresis (AE) (from Greek diairein, to divide) is the modification of a syllable by distinctly pronouncing one of its vowels. ...diaeresis.

Letter Ü

The letter Ü occurs in the The Estonian literary language is based on Latin alphabet. ...Estonian, The Hungarian alphabet is an extension of the Roman alphabet. ...Hungarian, and The current Turkish alphabet used for the Turkish language replaced the earlier arabic alphabet and was created at the initative of Kemal Atatürk by borrowing different Latin characters in 1928. ...Turkish An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters—basic written symbols—each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. ...alphabets, where it represents a front rounded high vowel ( SAMPA charts of consonants and vowels See a concise version of SAMPA for English sounds. .../y/).

This same letter appears in the Chinese (written) language (pinyin: zhōngw n) written in Chinese characters The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, 华语/華語, or 中文; Pinyin: H nyǔ, Hu yǔ, or Zhōngw n) is a member of the Sino_Tibetan family of languages. ...Chinese A romanization or latinization is a system for representing a word or language with the Roman (Latin) alphabet, where the original word or language used a different writing system. ...romanizations Pinyin (拼音, pīnyīn) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hànyǔ Pīnyīn (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration to roman script) for Standard Mandarin used in the...pinyin, Wade_Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration) system for the Chinese language based on Mandarin. ...Wade_Giles, and the German_based Lessing_Othmer, where it represents the same sound: the vowel of 玉 (jade) and 雨 (rain). Pinyin uses Ü only when ambiguity could arise with similarily romanized words containing a U, whereas Wade_Giles and Lessing use Ü in all situations.

U_umlaut

A similar glyph, U with This page is about punctuation. ...umlaut, appears in the The German alphabet consists of the same 26 letters as the modern Latin alphabet: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J...German alphabet. It represents the umlauted form of u, which results in the same sound as the letter Ü mentioned in the previous section: SAMPA charts of consonants and vowels See a concise version of SAMPA for English sounds. .../y/. The letter is This article needs cleanup. ...collated together with U. In languages which have adopted German names or spellings, such as Swedish (svenska) is a language spoken principally in Sweden, Finland (Finland_Swedish, Swedish: finlandssvenska), Åland and in the coastland of Estonia Swedish is classified as a member of the East section of the Scandinavian languages, a sub_group of the Germanic group of the Indo_European language family. ...Swedish and Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ...Dutch, the letter also occurs. It is however not a part of these languages' alphabets.

In other languages that do not have the letter as part of the regular alphabet or in limited A character encoding is a code that pairs a set of characters (such as an alphabet or syllabary) with a set of something else, such as numbers or electrical pulses. ...character sets such as There are 95 printable ASCII characters, numbered 32 to 126. ...ASCII, U_umlaut is frequently replaced with the two_letter combination "ue".

U diaeresis

U with In linguistics, a diaeresis or dieresis (AE) (from Greek diairein, to divide) is the modification of a syllable by distinctly pronouncing one of its vowels. ...diaeresis occurs in several languages which use diaereses.

In Portuguese (português) is a Romance language predominantly spoken in Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and East Timor. ...Portuguese, This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ...Castillian and Catalan (Català, Valencià) is a Romance language spoken by as many as approximately 12 million people in portions of Spain, France, Andorra and Italy, although the majority of Catalan speakers are in Spain. ...Catalan Ü performs a special rôle. U is normally silent in these languages, and Ü is used to indicate the vowel is to be pronounced in a position where it would normally be silent, specifically between a "G" and an "E" or "I" and between a "Q" and an "E" or "I" in Portuguese and Catalan. Its sound remains a normal U as used in these languages.

Since in Spanish the pronunciation of G is the seventh letter in the Roman alphabet. ...G ordinarily changes from SAMPA charts of consonants and vowels See a concise version of SAMPA for English sounds. .../g/ to SAMPA charts of consonants and vowels See a concise version of SAMPA for English sounds. .../x/ (same as Spanish "J") when followed by I is the 9th letter in the Latin alphabet. ...I or The letter E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet. ...E, a silent U is added after the G when it is necessary to preserve the SAMPA charts of consonants and vowels See a concise version of SAMPA for English sounds. .../g/ sound. For example, guerra (war) is pronounced SAMPA charts of consonants and vowels See a concise version of SAMPA for English sounds. .../geRa/, not * SAMPA charts of consonants and vowels See a concise version of SAMPA for English sounds. .../xeRa/. However, in cases where the U should not be silent, a diaeresis is added. For example, lingüística (linguistics) is pronounced SAMPA charts of consonants and vowels See a concise version of SAMPA for English sounds. .../lingwistika/, not * SAMPA charts of consonants and vowels See a concise version of SAMPA for English sounds. .../lingistika/. It is used similarly in Portuguese and Catalan.

Other languages which use diaereses, such as French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ...French or Dutch, may contain other occurences of Ü. Catalan also contains words with Ü which are not subject to the pronunciation changing rules given above. Since some of these languages also contain U_umlaut, which looks identical to U_diaeresis, words may be inadvertently mispronounced.

Typography

Historically the unique letter Ü and U_diaeresis were written as a U with two dots above the letter. U_umlaut was written as a U with a small e written above: this minute e degenerated to two vertical bars in The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ...medieval Penmanship is the art of writing clearly and quickly. ...handwritings. In most later handwritings these bars in turn nearly became dots.

In modern Typography (from the Greek words typos = form and grapho = write) is the art and technique of selecting and arranging type styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing for typeset applications. ...typography there was insufficient space on Although still popular with a few writers and in less developed countries, the typewriter has largely been replaced by the word processor. ...typewriters and later QWERTY computer keyboard A computer keyboard is a peripheral modelled after the typewriter keyboard. ...computer keyboards to allow for both a U_with_dots (also representing Ü) and a U_with_bars. Since they looked near_identical the two glyphs were combined, which was also done in computer A character encoding is a code that pairs a set of characters (such as an alphabet or syllabary) with a set of something else, such as numbers or electrical pulses. ...character encodings such as ISO 8859_1, more formally cited as ISO/IEC 8859_1 or less formally as Latin_1, is part 1 of ISO/IEC 8859, a standard character encoding defined by ISO. It encodes what it refers to as Latin alphabet no. ...ISO 8859_1. As a result there was no way to differentiate between the three different characters. While In computing, Unicode is the international standard whose goal is to provide the means to encode the text of every document people want to store in computers. ...Unicode theoretically provides a solution, this is almost never used.

The HTML has been in use since 1991 (note that the W3C international standard is now XHTML), but the first standardized version with a reasonably complete treatment of international characters was version 4. ...HTML entity for Ü is Ü. For ü, it is ü ( A mnemonic (AmE [] or BrE []) is a memory aid. ...Mnemonic for "U umlaut").