u
n.
21st letter of the alphabet
pron.
(Informal) abbreviated form of the personal pronoun "you"
U
n.
(Japanese) Usagi, "hare", Chinese zodiac sign
U
Ü
Ư
Acute accent
Backspace
Backspace is the keyboard key that originally pushed the
typewriter carriage one position backwards, and in modern computer displays moves the cursor one position backwards, deletes the preceding character, and shifts back the text after it by one position.In typewriters, a typist would, for example, type a lowercase letter A with acute accent (á) by typing a lowercase letter A, backspace and then the acute accent key (also known as
overstrike). This is the basis for such spacing modifiers in computer character sets such as the
ASCII caret (^, for the circumflex accent). Backspace composition no longer works with digital displays or typesetting systems. It has to some degree been replaced with the
combining diacritical marks mechanism of
Unicode, though such characters do not work well with many fonts, and precomposed characters continue to be used. Some software like
TeX or
Microsoft Windows use the opposite method for diacritical marks, namely positioning the accent first, and then the base letter on its position.
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Circumflex
The circumflex (ˆ) (often also called a "
caret", from a non-diacritical sign with similar shape (
^); also "hat" or "uppen") is a
diacritic mark used in written
Greek,
French,
Frisian,
Esperanto,
Norwegian,
Romanian,
Slovak,
Vietnamese,
Romanized Japanese,
Welsh,
Portuguese,
Italian,
Afrikaans,
Turkish and other languages. It received its English name from
Latin circumflexus (bent about)—a translation of the Greek περισπωμένη (perispomeni).
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Double acute accent
The double acute accent ( ˝ ) is a
diacritic mark of the Latin script used primarily in
written Hungarian. Consequently, it is also known as Hungarumlaut. The signs formed with diacritic marks count as letters of their own right in the Hungarian alphabet.
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Grave accent
The grave accent ( ` ) is a
diacritical mark used in written
Catalan,
French,
Greek until
1982 (
polytonic orthography),
Italian,
Norwegian,
Occitan,
Portuguese,
Scottish Gaelic,
Vietnamese,
Welsh, and other languages.The word grave is derived from the
Latin gravis (heavy). In English the word is normally pronounced "grahv", IPA , not like grave meaning "serious" or a "tomb." It comes from French, where it is pronounced similarly: accent grave .
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Ring (diacritic)
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
U (das)
n.
u, 21st letter of the alphabet
Ü (das)
n.
u umlaut, German vocal
u. (und)
and, with, together with; also, too
u (m)
n.
u, 21st letter of the alphabet