Turned v

Turned v (majuscule: Ʌ, minuscule: ʌ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, based on a turned form of V.

"Ʌ" redirects here. It is not to be confused with A, ∧, λ, 人, or ㅅ.

It is used in the orthographies of Ch'ol, Nankina, Northern Tepehuán, Temne and Wounaan, and also some orthographies of Ibibio.[1]

Its lowercase is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent an open-mid back unrounded vowel, the vowel in plus in many dialects of English.

Despite the similarity in appearance, the letter has no connection to the Greek Λ, Chinese 人, or Korean ㅅ.

Character encoding
Character information
PreviewʌɅ
Unicode nameLATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED VLATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED V
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode652U+028C581U+0245
UTF-8202 140CA 8C201 133C9 85
Numeric character referenceʌʌɅɅ
  • ʌ with diacritics: ʌ́ ʌ̀
  • ᶺ : Modifier letter small turned v is used in phonetic transcription[2]
gollark: It SHOULD probably maybe.
gollark: Yes, praise be.
gollark: The interacting-with-humans bit though.
gollark: It seems like some of this might be hard without *actually* creating dangerous AGI.
gollark: And they use relativistic cryoapioform cooling, so that isn't actually a problem.

See also

Similar symbols:

References
  1. Urua 2004
  2. Constable, Peter (2004-04-19). "L2/04-132 Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS" (PDF).

Bibliography
  • Urua, Eno-Abasi ; Moses Ekpenyong and Dafydd Gibbon. 2004. Uyo Ibibio Dictionary. Preprint draft. online copy
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