关于大写U右边有没有一条竖线的争论

Does the capital letter U have a vertical axis?

Hello, friends of Quora. I come from Guangdong Province, China. I have a son who is in the third grade of elementary school this year. This year, their courses have started learning English. They are currently learning how to write 26 English letters. Today when I was checking his homework, I found that when he was silently writing 26 English letters, he wrote the letter U as if it were lowercase u, with a vertical line, just like an enlarged version of lowercase u. When I was learning English twenty years ago, I clearly remember that the capital letter U did not have this vertical axis.

So my child’s mother and I started discussing this matter. I thought there was no vertical line for uppercase U, but the child’s mother insisted that uppercase U had a vertical line. She also said that more than twenty years ago, when her teacher taught her how to write the uppercase letter U, her teacher’s writing also had a vertical line. She believed that there was a vertical line on the right side of the uppercase letter U. Now the child’s teacher teaches them to write the uppercase letter U with a vertical line on the right, it’s just a matter of font. However, I do not agree with her view. I believe that fonts can be different, but strokes will not increase or decrease. We discussed this for a long time, even escalating to an argument. Until now, our relationship has been deadlocked due to this dispute.

Please forgive a bull for being too serious ：）lol

The mother of the child really doesn’t understand why I insist on this issue,She thinking it’s not important and there’s no need for me to be too serious. But personally, I believe that learning is a matter of passing on knowledge from one generation to the next, and it is related to my beliefs. My wife and I are both non-native speakers of English, which is why I am here today to raise a question.

Is there a vertical line on the right side when writing the capital letter U?

Please let me know if you know, thank you so much.

过了一天，回答来了。

First of all, the term “vertical axis” is not correct, and many readers of the question will be misled by it.

With regard to what you are actually asking about, it does not matter whether the uppercase “U” has a “tail” or not. It makes no difference. Some people write it with a “tail” and others do not. There is no “rule” about such a thing and there is no standard way to write an uppercase “U”. There is no “right” way and “wrong” way. Handwriting is a individual matter and each person puts his or her own stamp of individuality on how he or she writes any letter of the alphabet—not just the uppercase “U”.

In cursive writing, the uppercase “U” must have a tail, since the uppercase “U” is connected to the next letter in the word. Even in print handwriting, there can be a “tail”. Here are examples from online sources.

首先，“纵轴”一词是不正确的，许多读者会被它误导。
关于你实际上在问什么，大写的“U”是否有“尾巴”并不重要。这没什么区别。有些人用“尾巴”写，而另一些人则没有。关于这样的事情没有“规则”，也没有标准的方式来写大写的“U”。没有“正确”的方式和“错误”的方式。手写是个人的事情，每个人在书写字母表中的任何字母时都会留下自己的个性印记，而不仅仅是大写的“U”。
在草书中，大写的“U”必须有一个尾部，因为大写的“U”与单词中的下一个字母相连。即使在印刷体中，也可能有“尾巴”。以下是来自在线资源的示例。

Reply：

Thank you sir.

To be honest, this is really unexpected for me. There have been some changes in English textbooks in China over the past twenty years, which have led to arguments between my wife and me. It seems like we’re arguing about something meaningless! Let’s treat it as an interlude in our family and marital life.Have a good day.

过几天再看看其他人的回答。