Turned v

Ʌ
Ʌ
Ʌ ʌ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Alphabetic and Logographic
Phonetic usage	[ʌ];
Unicode codepoint	U+0245, U+028C
History
Development	Ʌ ʌ;
Other
Writing direction	Left-to-Right
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Turned v (majuscule: Ʌ, minuscule: ʌ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, based on a turned form of the letter V.

It is used in the orthographies of Dan, Ch’ol, Nankina, Northern Tepehuán, Temne, Oneida, 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, Cyrillic Л, CJK radical 人, or Korean ㅅ.

In German and French handwriting, the numeral 1 often takes the form of a turned V, whereby the serif is extended down to the length of the main stroke.^[2]

Character encoding

Character information
Preview	ʌ		Ʌ
Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED V		LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED V
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	652	U+028C	581	U+0245
UTF-8	202 140	CA 8C	201 133	C9 85
Numeric character reference	ʌ	ʌ	Ʌ	Ʌ

Related characters

Descendants and related letters in the Latin alphabet

ʌ with diacritics: ʌ́ ʌ̀
ᶺ : Modifier letter small turned v is used in phonetic transcription^[3]

References

^ Urua 2004
^ "Misidentification of Alphanumeric Symbols in Both Handwritten and Computer-generated Information". ISMP Medication Safety Alert!. 2 July 2009. Archived from the original on 12 July 2009.
^ 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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[1] Urua 2004

[2] "Misidentification of Alphanumeric Symbols in Both Handwritten and Computer-generated Information". ISMP Medication Safety Alert!. 2 July 2009. Archived from the original on 12 July 2009.

[3] Constable, Peter (2004-04-19). "L2/04-132 Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS" (PDF).

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