Ʊ

Shapes of Latin upsilon as drawn in the African reference alphabet, clearly base on a modern shape of the Greek letter upsilon, but with an uppercase ambiguously similar to an uppercase U with serif.

The letter Ʊ (minuscule: ʊ), called Latin upsilon, is a letter of the Latin alphabet. While its form superficially resembles an upside-down capital Greek letter omega (Ω), it is derived from the Greek lowercase upsilon (υ).

Its lowercase is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to transcribe a near-close near-back vowel.

It is used in some alphabets of African languages, such as in one of the Kabiyé orthographies.

Use on computers

The majuscule and the minuscule are located at U+01B1 and U+028A in Unicode, respectively.

See also

• Mho (℧)