Waw (letter)

← He Waw Zayin →
Phoenician
Hebrew	ו
Aramaic
Syriac	ܘ
Arabic	و
Phonemic representation	w, v, o, u
Position in alphabet	6
Numerical value	6
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician
Greek	Ϝ, Υ
Latin	F, U, V, W, Y
Cyrillic	У, Ѵ

Waw (wāw "hook") is the sixth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician wāw 𐤅, Aramaic waw 𐡅, Hebrew vav ו, Syriac waw ܘ and Arabic wāw و (sixth in abjadi order; 27th in modern Arabic order).

It represents the consonant [w] in classical Hebrew, and [v] in modern Hebrew, as well as the vowels [u] and [o]. In text with niqqud, a dot is added to the left or on top of the letter to indicate, respectively, the two vowel pronunciations.

It's the origin of Greek Ϝ (digamma) and Υ (upsilon), Cyrillic У, Latin F and V and later Y, and the derived Latin- or Roman-alphabet letters U and W.