Ū (Indic)
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Ū is a vowel of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, Ū is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter . As an Indic vowel, Ū comes in two normally distinct forms: 1) as an independent letter, and 2) as a vowel sign for modifying a base consonant. Bare consonants without a modifying vowel sign have the inherent "A" vowel.
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Ū | |
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Example glyphs | |
Bengali–Assamese | |
Tibetan | ཨཱུ |
Tamil | |
Thai | ู |
Malayalam | ഊ |
Sinhala | ඌ |
Ashoka Brahmi | |
Devanagari | |
Cognates | |
Hebrew | ו |
Greek | Ϝ (Ϛ), Υ (Ȣ) |
Latin | F, V, U, W, Y, Ⅎ |
Cyrillic | Ѕ, У (Ꙋ), Ѵ, Ю |
Properties | |
Phonemic representation | /uː/ |
IAST transliteration | ū Ū |
ISCII code point | A9 (169) |
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