U+090A "ऊ" Devanagari Letter Uu Unicode Character

U+090A "ऊ" Devanagari Letter Uu is a vowel used in the Devanagari script, primarily for writing languages such as Hindi, Sanskrit, Marathi, and Nepali. It represents the long "uu" sound, phonetically transcribed as /uː/, and is the lengthened counterpart of the short vowel "उ" (U). In its independent form, as seen in the character code, it appears as the full vowel, while in writing it can also appear as a diacritic mark, known as a matra, attached to a consonant letter. This character is an essential component of the Devanagari syllabary and plays a key role in distinguishing word meanings based on vowel length in these South Asian languages.