Ū (Indic)

Ū
Example glyphs
Bengali–Assamese
Tibetan
Tamil
Thai
Malayalam
Sinhala
Ashoka Brahmi
Devanagari
Cognates
Hebrewו
GreekϜ (Ϛ), Υ (Ȣ)
LatinF, V, U, W, Y, Ⅎ
CyrillicЅ, У (Ӯ), Ѵ, Ю
Properties
Phonemic representation/uː/
IAST transliterationū Ū
ISCII code pointA9 (169)

Ū is a vowel of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, Ū is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter . As an Indic vowel, Ū comes in two normally distinct forms: as an independent letter and as a vowel sign for modifying a base consonant. Bare consonants without a modifying vowel sign have the inherent "A" vowel.