Meaning of U | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An Austroasiatic language spoken in China.
2. An honorific to a Burmese man
3. A dictionary transcription for the GOOSE vowel
4. The east part of Ü-Tsang, centered in Lhasa.
   uncommon
5. An orthographic ⟨u⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the GOOSE vowel, as in the word "rude".
   dated
6. A dictionary transcription for the USE vowel; also an orthographic ⟨u⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as having that value, as in the word "tune".
7. A dictionary transcription for the STRUT vowel
8. A U-turn.
9. The twenty-first letter of the English alphabet, called u and written in the Latin script.
   letter, lowercase
10. The name of the Latin script letter U/u.
11. A dictionary transcription for the FOOT vowel
12. The letter u with a tilde, replacing the sequence un or um.
    Early, Modern, letter, lowercase, obsolete
13. A thing in the shape of the letter U.
14. The Central Tibetan language, a variety of Tibetan.
    uncommon
15. An element of the digraph ûr, a dictionary transcription for the NURSE vowel
16. Something shaped like the letter U:
    letter, uppercase
17. A U-turn ('turned a U in the road')
    letter, uppercase
18. Abbreviation of university.
    abbreviation, alt-of
19. An orthographic ⟨u⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the NURSE vowel, as in the word "turn".
    dated
20. A double upright cordon espalier (also double U, triple U).
    letter, uppercase
21. Abbreviation of Sunday.
    abbreviation, alt-of
22. A film with the film classification U (“universal”).
    UK

Equivalents

Examples

“I prefer the u in Arial to the one in Times New Roman.”

“Do a U across the divider and get on back here to the office.”

“Among the settled communities of Central Tibet, the Tsang dialect as spoken in Shigatse and the U dialect as spoken in Lhasa hold the field.”

“U Thant; U Nu”

“+ r”

“thũder — thunder”

“trũpet — trumpet”

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