Ú
Ú, ú (u-acute) is a Latin letter used in the Czech, Dobrujan Tatar, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Karakalpak and Slovak writing systems. This letter also appears in Dutch, Frisian, Irish, Occitan, Catalan, Pinyin, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Galician, and Vietnamese as a variant of the letter "U".<ref name="compart">Template:Cite web</ref>
Usage in various languages
Czech
Ú/ú is the 34th letter of the Czech alphabet and represents a Template:IPA sound. It is mostly the first letter of the word, as in Template:Lang 'angle'. If this sound is in the middle of the word, the letter Template:Vr is used instead, as in Template:Lang 'horse'. Exceptionally, Template:Vr in the middle is written in compound words, such as Template:Lang triangle, in old words, such as Template:Lang Colchicum, Template:Lang, and in loanwords, such as Template:Lang 'Beirut', Template:Lang 'Ruth', Template:Lang 'muse', Template:Lang 'manicure', Template:Lang 'pedicure', Template:Lang 'strudel'.
Dobrujan Tatar
Ú/ú is the 28th letter of Dobrujan Tatar alphabet, represents the hight rounded half-advanced ATR or soft vowel /ʉ/ as in "sút" [s̶ʉt̶] 'milk'. In the vicinity of semivowel y, which occurs rarely, its articulation shifts to high rounded ATR or soft /y/, close to Turkish pronunciation, as in "súymek" [s̶ym̶ec] 'to love'.
Faroese
Ú/ú is the 24th letter of the Faroese alphabet, and may represent the following sounds:
- Short Template:IPA in such words as krúss Template:IPA ("mug", "coffee cup")
- Short Template:IPA before Template:IPA in such words as kúgv Template:IPA ("cow"), but also in brúdleyp Template:IPA ("bridal")
- Long Template:IPA diphthong in úti Template:IPA ("out"), hús Template:IPA ("house"), jú Template:IPA ("but"),
Hungarian
Ú/ú is the 36th letter of the Hungarian alphabet and represents a Template:IPA sound.
Icelandic
Ú/ú is the 25th letter of the Icelandic alphabet, and represents a Template:IPA sound.
Javanese
Ú/ú is the letter of the Javanese Latin alphabet, and represents a Template:IPA sound.
Kazakh
Template:See also It was proposed in 2018 that Ú/ú should be one of its Latin script, it should represent the near-close front rounded vowel (Template:IPAlink) and is used to replace Cyrillic Ү. The replacement is modified to be Ü ü in 2020.
Karakalpak
Ú/ú is the 26th letter of the Karakalpak alphabet and represents near-close front rounded vowel.
Slovak
Ú/ú is the 39th letter of the Slovak alphabet and represents a Template:IPA sound.
Portuguese/Galician/Spanish/Catalan
In Portuguese, Galician, Spanish and Catalan, "ú" is not a distinct letter but a modified letter "u". It is used to denote an "u" with unusual stress.
Italian
Ú/ú is a variant of U carrying an acute accent; it represents an /u/ carrying the tonic accent. It is used only if it is the last letter of the word except in dictionaries. In Italian, Ú/ú is orthographically equivalent to Ù/ù; predominantly the latter is used.