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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 .
A chevron (also spelled cheveron, especially in older documents) is a V-shaped mark or symbol, often inverted.The word is usually used in reference to a kind of fret in architecture, or to a badge or insignia used in military or police uniforms to indicate rank or length of service, or in heraldry and the designs of flags (see flag terminology).
Spectrogram of ʌ. The open-mid back unrounded vowel or low-mid back unrounded vowel [1] is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʌ , graphically a rotated lowercase "v" (called a turned V but created as a small-capital ᴀ without the crossbar, even though some vendors display it as a real turned v).
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.
Nonstandard phonetic symbol; Uralic Phonetic Alphabet [2] IPA /ä/ Ɐ ɐ ᵄ: Turned A: Near-open central vowel [3] Ɑ ɑ ᵅ: Alpha (script A) IPA (open back unrounded vowel); Duka, Fe'fe, Manenguba, Medumba, Tigon, Tawellemmet Berber; cf. Greek: Α α ꬰ Barred alpha: Otto Bremer's phonetic transcription system for German dialectology [4 ...
The symbol was introduced originally in 1770 by Nicolas de Condorcet, who used it for a partial differential, and adopted for the partial derivative by Adrien-Marie Legendre in 1786. [3] It represents a specialized cursive type of the letter d , just as the integral sign originates as a specialized type of a long s (first used in print by ...
In NATO military operations, a chevron (a heraldic symbol which looks like a capital letter lambda or inverted V) is painted on the vehicles of this military alliance for identification. In electrochemistry, lambda denotes the "equivalent conductance" of an electrolyte solution.
Other rotated symbols include ɞ (rotated or reversed ʚ), ʖ (rotated ʕ) ⱹ (rotated ɽ), ɺ (rotated ɼ), the digits ↊ and ↋, the insular g: Ꝿ ꝿ, and the ampersand ⅋. The turned comma or inverted comma (‘) is, as its name suggests, a rotated comma. This symbol is most commonly encountered as an opening single quotation mark.