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U
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u
n.
21st letter of the alphabet
pron.
(Informal) abbreviated form of the personal pronoun "you"
U
n.
(Japanese) Usagi, "hare", Chinese zodiac sign
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U
U or u is a letter in the Esperanto alphabet, based on u. It is also used in the Belarusian language, when written in the 20th-century form of the Belarusian Latin alphabet. The accent mark (diacritic) is known as a breve.
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Ú
Û
(u-circumflex) is a letter of the French, Friulian, Kurdish, and Turkish alphabets. This letter was used in the ISO 9:1995 system of Cyrillic transliteration as the letter Ю and also in Wade-Giles (one of the romanization systems in Chinese) for apical dental unrounded vowel as in tzû, tz'û, ssû, corresponds to present zi, ci, si in Pinyin respectively. It is also in Taos.
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Ü
Ü, or ü, is a character that typically represents a close front rounded vowel . It is classified as a separate letter in several extended Latin alphabets, or alternatively as the letter U with an umlaut/diaeresis in Azerbaijani, Catalan, Estonian, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Occitan, Spanish, Turkish and Turkmen.
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Backspace
Backspace is the keyboard key that originally pushed the typewriter carriage one position backwards, and in modern computer systems moves the display cursor one position backwards, deletes the character at that position, and shifts back the text after that position by one position.
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Caron
A caron or háček (; from Czech háček ) or mäkčeň (; from Slovak mäkčeň or ), also known as a wedge, inverted circumflex, inverted hat, is a diacritic ( ˇ ) placed over certain letters to indicate present or historical palatalization, iotation, or postalveolar pronunciation in the orthography of some Baltic, Slavic, Finnic, Samic, Berber and other languages. The caron also indicates the third tone (falling and then rising) in the Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese.
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Double acute accent
The double acute accent ( ˝ ) is a diacritic mark of the Latin script. It is used primarily in written Hungarian, and consequently is sometimes referred to by typographers as Hungarumlaut. The signs formed with diacritic marks are letters in their own right in the Hungarian alphabet (for instance, they are separate letters for the purpose of collation).
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Grave accent
The grave accent ( ` ) ( or ) is a diacritical mark used in many written languages, including Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Dutch, French, Greek (until 1982; see polytonic orthography), Haitian Creole, Italian, Mohawk, Norwegian, Occitan, Portuguese, Ligurian, Scottish Gaelic, Vietnamese, Welsh, Romansh and Yoruba.
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Macron
A macron is a diacritical mark, a straight bar placed above a letter, usually a vowel. Its name derives from the Greek (makrón), meaning "long", and was originally used to mark long or heavy syllables in Greco-Roman metrics. It now more often marks a long vowel. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the macron is used to indicate a mid-tone; the sign for a long vowel is instead a modified triangular colon .
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Ogonek
The ogonek (Polish: , "little tail", the diminutive of ogon; ) is a diacritic hook placed under the lower right corner of a vowel in the Latin alphabet used in several European languages, and directly under a vowel in several Native American languages.
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Ring (diacritic)
A ring diacritic may appear above or below letters. It may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets in various contexts.
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Tilde
U (disambiguation)
Ustaše
The Ustaše , also known as "Ustashe", "Ustashas", and "Ustashi", were members of the Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement , a Croatian fascist, ultranationalist and terrorist organization, active, in its original form, between 1929 and 1945. Its members murdered hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Roma (Gypsies) and anti-fascist or dissident Croats in Yugoslavia during World War II.
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U
Noun
1. a nitrogen-containing base found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine
(synonym) uracil
(hypernym) nucleotide
(substance-holonym) ribonucleic acid, RNA
2. a heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons
(synonym) uranium, atomic number 92
(hypernym) metallic element, metal
(hyponym) uranium 235
(substance-holonym) uraninite, pitchblende
3. the 21st letter of the Roman alphabet
(hypernym) letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character
(member-holonym) Roman alphabet, Latin alphabet
u
Adjective
1. (chiefly British) of or appropriate to the upper classes especially in language use
(similar) upper-class
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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U (das)
n.
u, 21st letter of the alphabet
Ü (das)
n.
u umlaut, German vocal
u. (und)
and, with, together with; also, too
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u
nm.
u, 21st letter of the alphabet
