Upside Down V In Math

Letter of the Latin alphabet

"ʌ" redirects here. Not to be dislocated with ∧, λ, 人, ㅅ, or ^.

Ʌ
Ʌ ʌ
Usage
Writing organization	Latin script
Type	Alphabetic and Logographic
Unicode codepoint	U+0245, U+028C
History
Evolution	Ʌ ʌ
Other
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Assist:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Turned five (upper-case letter: Ʌ, minuscule: ʌ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, based on a turned form of the letter of the alphabet 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 up-mid back unrounded vowel, the vowel in pludue south in many dialects of English.

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

Grapheme encoding [edit]

Character information

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

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Descendants and related letters in the Latin alphabet [edit]

• ʌ with diacritics: ʌ́ ʌ̀
• ᶺ : Modifier letter modest turned v is used in phonetic transcription^[2]

See also [edit]

Similar symbols:

• Caron
• Caret
• Circumflex
• Logical conjunction
• Chevron (insignia)

References [edit]

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

Bibliography [edit]

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

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turned_v

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