U (Cyrillic)
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Cyrillic letter U | |||||||
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Ꙕ | Ю̂ | Ꙗ | |||||
Я̈ | Я̂ | Я̨ | Ԙ | Ѥ | Ѧ | Ꙙ | Ѫ |
Ꙛ | Ѩ | Ꙝ | Ѭ | Ѯ | Ѱ | Ѳ | Ѵ |
Ѷ | Ꙟ |
U (У у; italics: У у) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the close back rounded vowel /u/, somewhat like the pronunciation of ⟨oo⟩ in "boot" or "rule". The forms of the Cyrillic letter U are similar to the lowercase of the Latin letter Y (Y y; Y y), with the lowercase Cyrillic letter U's form being identical to that of small Latin letter Y.
History
Historically, Cyrillic U evolved as a specifically
Consequently, the form of the letter is derived from Greek upsilon ⟨Υ υ⟩, which was parallelly also taken over into the Cyrillic alphabet in another form, as Izhitsa ⟨Ѵ⟩. (The letter Izhitsa was removed from the Russian alphabet in the orthography reform of 1917/19.)
It is normally romanised as "u", but in Kazakh, it is romanised as "w".
In the
In other languages
In
In certain languages, U is used to mark labialization.
Related letters and other similar characters
- Υ υ : Greek letter Upsilon
- U u : Latin letter U
- Y y : Latin letter Y
- Ў ў : Siberian Eskimo (Yuit), Uzbek
- Ӯ ӯ : Carpatho-Rusyn
- Ӱ ӱ :
- Ӳ ӳ : Cyrillic letter U with double acute, used in Chuvash
- Ү ү : and other languages
- Ұ ұ : Cyrillic letter Straight U with stroke, used in Kazakh
- Ꭹ Ꮍ : The syllables gi and mu of the Cherokee syllabary; Ꭹ (gi) notably appearing in the Cherokee self-designation ᏣᎳᎩ (Tsalagi)
- ע: The Hebrew letter Ayin
- У̊: Cyrillic letter U with ring,used in shugnhi orthography.
Computing codes
Preview | У | у | ||
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Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER U | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER U | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1059 | U+0423 | 1091 | U+0443 |
UTF-8 | 208 163 | D0 A3 | 209 131 | D1 83 |
Numeric character reference | У |
У |
у |
у |
Named character reference | У | у | ||
KOI8-R and KOI8-U | 245 | F5 | 213 | D5 |
Code page 855 | 232 | E8 | 231 | E7 |
Code page 866 | 147 | 93 | 227 | E3 |
Windows-1251 | 211 | D3 | 243 | F3 |
ISO-8859-5 |
195 | C3 | 227 | E3 |
Macintosh Cyrillic |
147 | 93 | 243 | F3 |
References
- ^ "Tuvan language, alphabet and pronunciation". omniglot.com. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
- ISBN 9781136258459. Retrieved 14 June 2016 – via Google Books.
- Ў, with breve, like the Dungan-Russian dictionary (1968). There is no ambiguity since it is the only У-with-a-diacritic in Dungan. It is used in Dungan syllables for which pinyinwould use -u except in those with labial consonants (in du, ' nu, lu, gu, hu, zu, ru, etc. but not bu or mu)