V

During the Late Middle Ages, two minuscule glyphs of U developed which were both used for sounds including /u/ and modern /v/.

By the mid-16th century, the ⟨v⟩ form was used to represent the consonant and ⟨u⟩ the vowel sound, giving us the modern letter ⟨v⟩.

⟨v⟩ is the only letter that cannot be used to form an English two-letter word in the British[4] and Australian[5] versions of the game of Scrabble.

In Spanish, the phoneme has two main allophones; in most environments, it is pronounced [β̞], but after a pause or a nasal it is typically [b].

Informal romanizations of Mandarin Chinese use ⟨v⟩ as a substitute for the close front rounded vowel /y/, properly written ⟨ü⟩ in both pinyin and Wade–Giles.

Late Renaissance or early Baroque design of ⟨v⟩ , from 1627
Ancient Corinthian vase depicting Perseus , Andromeda and Ketos . The inscriptions denoting the depicted persons are written in an archaic form of the Greek alphabet . Perseus (classical ΠΕΡΣΕΥΣ) is inscribed as ⟨ϺVBϺΡBΠ⟩ (from right to left), using ⟨V⟩ to represent the vowel [u] . San ( ⟨Ϻ⟩ ) is used instead of Sigma ( ⟨Σ⟩ ).