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U with ogonek
Ų ų
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	alphabetic
Language of origin	Chipewyan Dadibi Dalecarlian Gwichʼin Hän Iñapari Ixtlán Zapotec Kaska Lithuanian Sierra Otomi Sekani Tagish Tlingit Tutchone Winnebago
Unicode codepoint	U+0172, U+0173
History
Development	Ų ų
Other
Writing direction	Left-to-Right

U with ogonek (majuscule: Ų, minuscule: ų) is a letter of the Latin alphabet formed by addition of the ogonek to the letter U. It is used in Lithuanian, Chipewyan, Dadibi, Dalecarlian, Gwichʼin, Hän, Iñapari, Kaska, Sierra Otomi, Sekani, Tagish, Tlingit, Tutchone, Winnebago, and Ixtlán Zapotec.

Usage

In Lithuanian, it is the 28th letter of the alphabet, and is pronounced as long close back rounded vowel (). In the past, the letter was used to denote the nasalized close back rounded vowel (). Currently, it appears in the words that used to be nasalized in the past, for example in siųsti, which means send.

The letter also appears in various Indigenous languages of North America, which are: Chipewyan, Dadibi, Dalecarlian, Gwichʼin, Hän, Iñapari, Kaska, Sierra Otomi, Sekani, Tagish, Tlingit, Tutchone, Winnebago, and Ixtlán Zapotec. In most of them, the letter represent the nasalized close back rounded vowel ().

Encoding

Character information

Preview	Ų		ų
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH OGONEK		LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH OGONEK
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	370	U+0172	371	U+0173
UTF-8	197 178	C5 B2	197 179	C5 B3
Numeric character reference	Ų	Ų	ų	ų
Named character reference	Ų		ų

References

1. ^ a b "Wymowa". lietpol.eu (in Polish).

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