Latin Small Letter U With Diaeresis
Part of Accented Latin Letters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0252 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter u with diaeresis.
- Alt code
- Alt+0252
- HTML entity
- ü
- Unicode
- U+00FC
About this symbol
The two dots of the German umlaut started as a small e written above a vowel to change its sound, so ü was once u with an e on top. In German handwriting that e looked like two short strokes, and printers turned them into dots from the sixteenth century.
Spanish puts the same two dots over u for a different reason: to show it is pronounced, as in pingüino, penguin, and cigüeña, stork.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Lowercase letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Accented Latin Letters chart for related characters.