U

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

26 more languages

العربيةأويُويو - الحرف الحادي والعشرون في اللغة الإنجليزية

Българскиу

Bosanskiuу

Catalàu

Cymraeguu bedolu gwpan

Ελληνικάγιου

Esperantou

Suomiuu

Gaeilgeuur

Galegou

ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻiʻū

हिन्दीयूँ

Hrvatskiuу

Italianou

日本語ユー

한국어유

Kurdîûûr

Latinau

Bahasa Melayuyu

မြန်မာယူ

Polskiu

Русскийую

Српскиuу

ไทยยู

Türkçeu

Tiếng Việtừ

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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