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: This article is about the alphabetic letter. For the TV series, see V (TV series). For the protaganist of Alan Moore's graphic novel, see V (V for Vendetta). For the element, see Vanadium.
V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is pronounced vee.
V ultimately comes from the Semitic letter Waw, as do the modern letters F, U, W, and Y. See F for details.
In Greek, the letter " upsilon" (Y) was adapted from waw to represent, at first, the vowel /u/ as in "moon" (although in later times, this vowel came to be pronounced /y/, a rounded vowel as in English "few").
In Latin, it was borrowed in early times as V (without the stem) to represent the same /u/ sound, and eventually it became slurred, taking on a double nature as consonant and vowel. Thus, num was pronounced "noom" and via was pronounced "oo-i-a", but in a quick pronunciation as two syllables. By about the second century AD, "v" was simplified even further as a /w/ sound (ironically, this was the original sound of Semitic Waw); thus "via" came to be pronounced "wi-a." From the fifth century on, it developed into the modern /v/ sound, as in "vile."
To differentiate between the consonant and vowel sounds, the shape of "v" was rounded during the Middle Ages to represent the vowel sound, giving us the modern letter "u".
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, 'v' represents the voiced labiodental fricative. See IPA chart for English for pronunciation key.
Codes for computing
{{Letter
|NATO=Victor
|Morse=···–
|B1=â—?
|B2=â—?
|B3=â—?
|B4=â—‹
|B5=â—‹
|B6=â—?
}}
In Unicode the capital V is codepoint U+0056 and the lowercase v is U+0076.
The ASCII code for capital V is 86 and for lowercase v is 118; or in Binary numeral system 01010110 and 01110110, respectively.
The EBCDIC code for capital V is 229 and for lowercase v is 165.
V is a reoccuring song in the popular Japanese based music game, Beatmania IIDX. Originating on the fifth addition, it has appeared on every single style to follow it, including the consumer versions.
The numeric character references in HTML and XML are " &" and " &" for upper and lower case respectively.
Meanings for V
- "V is for Victory"
- "V" can also mean "Vendetta", a jab at the above slogan.
- In astronomy,
V stands for a November 1 through 15 discovery, in the provisional designation of a comet (e.g. C/1680 V1, Kirch's Comet) or asteroid (e.g. (3360) 1981 VA).
- In comics
- - V (V for Vendetta)|V is the name given by a mysterious agitator who fights against a totalitarian government in Alan Moore's limited series (and later feature film) V for Vendetta.
- In biochemistry, V is the symbol for valine.
- In chemistry, V is the symbol for vanadium.
- In communication, V is the name of a hand gesture; see V sign
- In computing,
- - V is an operation on a Semaphore (programming), used for process synchronisation.
- - V (operating system)|V is the name of an operating system developed at Stanford University.
- In electrical engineering, V is the symbol for voltage (also known as electric potential, see below).
- In finance, V is the U.S. ticker symbol for Vivendi Universal.
- In geosciences, V stands for the true geopotential, and V-shaped for sharply eroded valleys
- In grammar, v is an abbreviation for verb.
- In List of international license plate codes|international licence plate codes, V stands for Vatican City.
- In the SI system,
- In physics, v is often a variable for speed or velocity.
- As the first letter of a postal code,
- In Roman numerals, V denotes the number five (there are also separate Unicode characters for this number, 0x2164 "â…¤" and 0x2174 "â…´").
- In literature, Thomas Pynchon's first novel is called V. (including the period).
- In set theory, V denotes the universe of all sets.
- In television, V (TV series)|V is the name of a 1983 science fiction miniseries / TV series
- In music,
- - the roman numeral V is the dominant (music) dominant (music) scale_degree, Chord (music), or Chord (music), or diatonic function, when distinguished V = major and v = minor.
- - V is the name of a band from the United Kingdom; see V (band).
- - V (album) is the name of several albums.
- - Channel [V] is a music-centric television station operated by STAR TV.
- V (Drink) is the name of a V (Drink) is the name of a drink_produced_by Frucor in New Zealand.
- A V engine is an internal combustion engine configuration.
- In Windows, Ctrl-V, and Mac OS, Command-V, pastes the contents of the clipboard at the insertion point.
- V is a commonly used abbreviation in reference to the 1993 anime series Kidou Senshi Victory Gundam by Yoshiyuki Tomino. Also abbreviated VG.
- In Finnish, "the v-word" is an euphemism for the swear word vittu.
- There are several magazines named V (magazine), for example V (magazine), for example V (Finnish magazine)|V in Finland and V (American magazine)|V in the USA.See also
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