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Also known as v, vee, Victor, , V, victor

V, or v, is the twenty-second letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is vee (pronounced ), plural vees.

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V is the twenty-second letter of the Latin alphabet and is used in English and many other languages around the world. It matters because it's a fundamental building block of written communication, allowing us to spell and read words in English and numerous other languages.

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V
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Latin script
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Alphabet
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ic and logographic
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Latin language
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U+0056, U+0076
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22
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Υ υ
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𐌖
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700 BCE to present
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UW∨℣ᏤᏉᏙ

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  • Name
  • Use in writing systems
  • English
  • Romance languages
  • Other languages
  • Other systems
  • Other uses
  • Related characters
  • Descendants and related letters in the Latin alphabet
  • Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets
  • Ligatures and abbreviations
  • Other representations
  • Unicode <span class="anchor" id="Computing codes"></span><span class="anchor" id="Computing"></span>
  • Other
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

V, or v, is the twenty-second letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is vee (pronounced ), plural vees.

==Name== ; in dialects that merge and , the letter is called ().

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