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| Bengali–Assamese | &sq=&lang=&file=File:Bengali_Letter_U.svg){kind=small} |
| Tibetan | &sq=&lang=&file=File:Tibetan_U.svg){kind=small} |
| Tamil | &sq=&lang=&file=File:Tamil-alphabet-%E0%AE%89%E0%AE%89.svg){kind=small} |
| Malayalam | ഉ |
| Sinhala | උ |
| Ashoka Brahmi | &sq=&lang=&file=File:Brahmi_u.svg){kind=small} |
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| Cognates | |
| Hebrew | ו |
| Greek | Ϝ (Ϛ), Υ (Ȣ) |
| Latin | F, V, U, W, Y, Ⅎ |
| Cyrillic | Ѕ, У (Ꙋ), Ѵ, Ю |
| Properties | |
| Phonemic representation | /u/ /ʊ/ |
| IAST transliteration | ū Ū |
| ISCII code point | A8 (168) |
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U is a vowel of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, U is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter after having gone through the Gupta letter &sq=&lang=&file=File:Gupta_allahabad_u.svg){kind=small}
. As an Indic vowel, U comes in two normally distinct forms: 1) as an independent letter, and 2) as a vowel sign for modifying a base consonant. Bare consonants without a modifying vowel sign have the inherent "A" vowel.