V

V (named vee /ˈviː/^[1]) is the twinty-seicont letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

V Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

Cursive script 'v' and capital 'V' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style

Pronunciation

In maist leids that uise a Latin alphabet, ⟨v⟩ haes a [v]-lik soond (voiced labiodental fricative). In maist byleids o Spainyie, it is pronoonced the same as ⟨b⟩, [b] or [β̞]. In German an Dutch it can be aither [v] or [f].

In Native American leids o North Americae (mainly Iroquoian), ⟨v⟩ represents a nasalized central vowel, /ə̃/.

In Cheenese pinyin, ⟨v⟩ isnae uised, as thare is nae soond [v] in Staundart Mandarin; but the letter ⟨v⟩ is uised bi maist inpit methods fur tae enter letter ⟨ü⟩, whilk maist keybuirds lack. Romanised Cheenese is a popular method fur tae enter Cheenese text phonetically.

In Erse, the letter ⟨v⟩ is maistly uised in loanwirds, sic as veidhlín frae Inglis violin. Housomiver the soond [v] appears naiturally in Erse when /b/ is lenited or "softened", representit in the orthography bi ⟨bh⟩, sae that bhí is pronoonced [vʲiː], an bhean (the woman) is pronoonced [ən̪ˠ ˈvʲan̪ˠ], etc.

In the 19t century, ⟨v⟩ wis whiles uised tae transcribe a palatal click, [ǂ], a function syne pairtly taen ower bi ⟨ç⟩.

Relatit letters an ither similar characters

• Ν ν : Greek letter Nu, that leuks lik a "v" in lawercase
• Ѵ ѵ : Cyrillic letter Izhitsa, a letter o the early Cyrillic alphabet
• В в : Cyrillic letter Ve

Computin codes

Character	V		v
Unicode name	LATIN CAIPITAL LETTER V		LATIN SMAA LETTER V
Encodins	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	86	U+0056	118	U+0076
UTF-8	86	56	118	76
Numeric chairacter reference	V	V	v	v
EBCDIC faimily	229	E5	165	A5
ASCII 1	86	56	118	76

¹ For encodins based on ASCII an aa, includin the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 an Macintosh faimilies o encodins.

Ither representations

NATO phonetic	Morse code
Victor	···–

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