Latin Capital Letter U
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 85 on the numeric keypad to insert latin capital letter u.
- Alt code
- Alt+85
- HTML entity
- U
- Unicode
- U+0055
About this symbol
U and V were one letter until the sixteenth century: Latin wrote V for both the vowel u and the consonant w, as in the carved VICTORIA. Printers gradually began using rounded U for the vowel and pointed V for the consonant.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Uppercase Latin alphabet
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.