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う - Hiragana letter U (U+3046). Article “う” in Japanese Wikipedia has 9.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.49 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in Japanese version.

Since the creation of article “う”, its content was written by 71 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 410 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 233 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 1729 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #3501 in July 2020
• Global: #28387 in April 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #12443 in August 2014
• Global: #105815 in August 2014

There are 24 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) U (kana)		51.2933
2	Catalan (ca) U (kana)		35.8677
3	Korean (ko) う		31.8624
4	Romanian (ro) U (kana)		28.6555
5	Turkish (tr) U (kana)		21.6225
6	German (de) U (Kana)		20.8729
7	Chinese (zh) う		18.3701
8	Thai (th) อุ (คะนะ)		18.37
9	Portuguese (pt) U (kana)		18.0181
10	French (fr) う		17.5724

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "う" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) う		994 278
2	English (en) U (kana)		458 816
3	Chinese (zh) う		93 544
4	Spanish (es) う		38 863
5	Korean (ko) う		29 267
6	German (de) U (Kana)		28 712
7	Russian (ru) У (кана)		27 328
8	Portuguese (pt) U (kana)		25 917
9	French (fr) う		20 412
10	Italian (it) U (kana)		19 307

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "う" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) う		3 345
2	English (en) U (kana)		2 463
3	Chinese (zh) う		698
4	German (de) U (Kana)		262
5	Spanish (es) う		172
6	Russian (ru) У (кана)		93
7	Korean (ko) う		90
8	Catalan (ca) U (kana)		86
9	French (fr) う		81
10	Italian (it) U (kana)		78

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "う" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) U (kana)		91
2	Japanese (ja) う		71
3	German (de) U (Kana)		54
4	French (fr) う		28
5	Spanish (es) う		22
6	Italian (it) U (kana)		21
7	Russian (ru) У (кана)		21
8	Korean (ko) う		15
9	Chinese (zh) う		15
10	Catalan (ca) U (kana)		14

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "う" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) う		1
2	Arabic (ar) أُو (كانا)		0
3	Catalan (ca) U (kana)		0
4	German (de) U (Kana)		0
5	English (en) U (kana)		0
6	Esperanto (eo) U (kanao)		0
7	Spanish (es) う		0
8	Finnish (fi) U (kana)		0
9	Hungarian (hu) U (kana)		0
10	Armenian (hy) う (ու)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "う" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) う		233
2	English (en) U (kana)		139
3	Catalan (ca) U (kana)		118
4	Chinese (zh) う		106
5	Korean (ko) う		98
6	Spanish (es) う		81
7	Russian (ru) У (кана)		80
8	Ukrainian (uk) う		70
9	French (fr) う		66
10	Romanian (ro) U (kana)		65

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic أُو (كانا)
ca	Catalan U (kana)
de	German U (Kana)
en	English U (kana)
eo	Esperanto U (kanao)
es	Spanish う
fi	Finnish U (kana)
fr	French う
hu	Hungarian U (kana)
hy	Armenian う (ու)
id	Indonesian U (kana)
it	Italian U (kana)
ja	Japanese う
ko	Korean う
no	Norwegian U (kana)
pl	Polish U (kana)
pt	Portuguese U (kana)
ro	Romanian U (kana)
ru	Russian У (кана)
th	Thai อุ (คะนะ)
tr	Turkish U (kana)
uk	Ukrainian う
zh	Chinese う
zhminnan	Min Nan う

Best Rank

Japanese: #12443 08.2014

Global: #105815 08.2014

Best Rank

Japanese: #3501 07.2020

Global: #28387 04.2005

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