Letter of the Latin alphabet
"ʌ" redirects here. Not to be confused with
∧ ,
λ ,
人 ,
ㅅ , or
^ .
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 plu s 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
ʌ with diacritics : ʌ́ ʌ̀
ᶺ : Modifier letter small turned v is used in phonetic transcription[ 3]
See also
Similar symbols:
References
Bibliography
Urua, Eno-Abasi ; Moses Ekpenyong and Dafydd Gibbon. 2004. Uyo Ibibio Dictionary . Preprint draft. online copy