Waw (letter)
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| Phonemic representation | w, v, o, u | |||||||||
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| Position in alphabet | 6 | |||||||||
| Numerical value | 6 | |||||||||
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Waw (wāw "hook") is the sixth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician wāw 
, Aramaic waw 
, Hebrew (also vau) ו, Syriac waw ܘ and Arabic و (sixth in abjadi order; 27th in modern Arabic order).
It represents the consonant [w] (in Modern Hebrew also [v]) and the vowels [u] and [o].
It is the origin of Greek Ϝ (digamma), Υ (upsilon) and Latin F, V and the derived letters U, W, Y.
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