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Cyrillic letter U
Image:Cyrillic letter U.png
Unicode (hex)
majuscule: U+0423
minuscule: U+0443
Cyrillic alphabet
АБВГҐДЃ
ЂЕЀЁЄЖЗ
ЅИЍІЇЙЈ
КЛЉМНЊО
ПРСТЋЌУ
ЎФХЦЧЏШ
ЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ
Non-Slavic letters
ӐӒӘӚӔҒӶ
ҔӖҼҾӁҖӜ
ҘӞӠӤӢӀҊ
ҚҞҠӃҜӅӍ
ҤҢӉӇӦӨӪ
ҨҦҎҪҬӲӰ
ӮҮҰҲҺҴӴ
ҶӋҸӸҌӬ 
Archaic letters
ҀѸѠѾѺѢІА
ѤѦѪѨѬѮѰ
ѲѴѶꙞ   
List of Cyrillic letters

U (У, у) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the vowel /u/ after non-palatalized (hard) consonants. Capital letters or majuscules pronunciation /məˈdʒʌskyuls ˈmædʒəˌskyuls/ in the Roman alphabet A, B, C, D, Lower case (also lower-case or lowercase) minuscule, or small letters are the smaller form of letters as opposed to upper The Cyrillic alphabet (səˈrɪlɪk also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters is actually a family of Alphabets, subsets of which are used by A (А а is the first letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It arose directly from the Greek letter alpha. Ve (В в is the third letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the sound /v/ Ge or He (Г г italics Г, г) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing /g/ or /ɦ/ in different languages Ge (Ґ ґ italic Ґґ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet mainly used in Ukrainian, representing the De (Д д italics Д д) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. Gje (Ѓ ѓ is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Macedonian language to represent / ɟ / or / ʥ / Dje, or Djerv (Ђ ђ is the sixth letter of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Serbian language to represent the sound /ʥ/ a Voiced alveolo-palatal For the Ukrainian alphabet letter Ye (Є є see Ukrainian Ye. Ye with grave ( Majuscule: Ѐ, minuscule: ѐ) is a Cyrillic character representing a stressed variant of regular letter е. Yo (Ё ё is the seventh letter of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, invented in 1783 by Yekaterina Dashkova, and first used among others in 1797 by the Russian Ye (Є є is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in Ukrainian and Rusyn languages to represent the iotated vowel sound /je/ Zhe (Ж ж is the letter of Cyrillic alphabet which represents the Voiced postalveolar fricative /ʒ/ ( listen) similar to the s Ze (З з is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant /z/ Dze (Ѕ ѕ is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used to represent the sound /dz/ in the Macedonian alphabet. I or Y (И и italics И, и) is a letter of almost all ancient and modern Cyrillic alphabets representing typically /i/ (in Old Slavonic I with grave ( Majuscule: Ѝ, minuscule: ѝ) is a character representing a stressed variant of regular letter ‹и› in some variants of the I (І і (also called dotted I) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the orthographies of the Belarusian, Kazakh and Yi (Ї ї is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Ukrainian and Rusyn languages Je (Ј ј is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Serbian, Macedonian, Azeri, and Altai languages Ka (К к is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It is derived from the Greek letter kappa (Κ κ El (Л л is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant /l/ unless it comes before a palatalizing vowel when it represents /lʲ/ except in Serbian The Cyrillic letter lje (Љ љ was originally a ligature of Л and Ь and represents a palatal lateral /ʎ/ a sound similar (but not equal Em (М м is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing a Bilabial nasal consonant /m/ unless it is before a palatalizing vowel when it represents En (Н н is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It represents the consonant /n/ unless followed by ь or any of the Palatalizing vowels when it represents /nʲ/ The Cyrillic letter Nje (Њ њ is a Ligature of Н and Ь. It is used in Macedonian and Serbian, where it represents O (О о is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the vowel /o/ word-initially and after hard consonants Pe (П п (formerly referred to by the mnemonic name pokoy) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant /p/ unless followed Er (Р р is the eighteenth letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It was developed from the Greek letter Rho. Es (С с is the eighteenth letter in the Bulgarian the nineteenth letter in the Russian and the twenty-first letter in Serbian Cyrillic alphabet. Te (Т т italics Т, т) is the letter in the Cyrillic alphabet corresponding to T in the Latin alphabet Tshe (Ћ ћ is the 23rd letter in the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet. Kje (Ќ ќ is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Macedonian language. Short U (Ў ў is a letter of the Belarusian Cyrillic alphabet. Ef (Ф ф is the twenty-second letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. Kha, (Х х is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the Voiceless velar fricative /x/ in Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian Tse (Ц ц is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It looks somewhat like U with square corners and a "pig tail" on the bottom right Che or Cha (Ч ч italics Ч ч) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. Dzhe (Џ џ is a letter of Vuk Karadžić 's Cyrillic alphabet reform used in Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian to represent a Voiced Sha (Ш ш italics Ш ш) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant sound /ʃ/ or /ʂ/ Shcha or Shta (Щ щ italics Щ щ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, historically representing The letter Yer or Jer ( Ъ, ъ) of the Cyrillic alphabet is known as the hard sign (твёрдый знак znak in the modern Yery or Yeru (Ы ы usually called ы in modern Russian) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. The soft sign (Ь ь is a symbol in the Cyrillic alphabet. In the Old Slavic language, it represented a short -like vowel but in modern Slavic Cyrillic writing For the letter E (Е е of the Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian and Ukrainian alphabets see Ye (Cyrillic Yu (Ю ю is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing either the combination /ju/ (a so-called iotated vowel or /u/ after a palatalized consonant Ya (Я я is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, representing either the combination /ja/ (a so-called Iotated vowel) or /a/ after a palatalized consonant The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages) a group of closely related Languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages A with breve ( Majuscule: Ӑ, minuscule: ă) is a Cyrillic letter used in the Chuvash language orthography A with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӓ, minuscule: ä) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet currently used in the Khanty, Kildin Sami Schwa ( Majuscule: Ә, minuscule: ә) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. Schwa with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӛ, minuscule: ӛ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet now only used in the Khanty language. Ӕ ӕ is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet now used in Ossetic to represent the Near-open front unrounded vowel /æ/ Ghayn is also a spelling for the Arabic letter Ghain. The Cyrillic letter Ghayn, Ge stroke or Ayn (in Kazakh Ge with descender ( Majuscule: Ӷ, minuscule: ӷ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used to write Siberian Yupik in Ge with middle hook ( Majuscule: Ҕ, minuscule: ҕ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Sakha and Abkhaz to represent Ye with Breve ( Majuscule: Ӗ, minuscule: ӗ) is a Cyrillic letter used only in Chuvash language Abkhazian Che ( Majuscule: Ҽ, minuscule: ҽ) is a letter found in the Cyrillic Alphabet. The Abkhazian Che with descender ( Majuscule: Ҿ, minuscule: ҿ) is a Cyrillic letter currently used for the Abkhazian language Zhe with breve ( Majuscule: Ӂ, minuscule: ӂ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, created by Soviet linguists for the Cyrillization The Cyrillic letter Zhe with descender or Zhje ( Majuscule: Җ, minuscule: җ) is used as a letter in the Tatar, Kalmyk and Zhe with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӝ, minuscule: ӝ) is a letter of the Cyrillic Alphabet used only in the Udmurt language. Ze with descender or Dhe ( Majuscule: Ҙ, minuscule: ҙ) is a Cyrillic letter used in the Bashkir language. Ze with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӟ, minuscule: ӟ) is a letter of Cyrillic now used in Udmurt language. Abkhazian Dze ( Majuscule: Ӡ, minuscule: ӡ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in the Abkhazian language. Used in the Udmurt language, I with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӥ, minuscule: ӥ) is a non-Slavic letter from the Cyrillic alphabet. I with macron ( Majuscule: Ӣ, minuscule: ӣ) is a letter of the Cyrillic Alphabet used in Tajik language to sound the Palatal approximant Palochka or Páločka ( Majuscule: Ӏ minuscule: ӏ Russian: па́лочка a stick is a letter added to the Cyrillic alphabet Short I with tail ( Majuscule: Ҋ, minuscule: ҋ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. The Cyrillic letter Қ, қ (in Kazakh: kk Qa) is a К with a Descender. Ka with stroke ( Majuscule: Ҟ, minuscule: ҟ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Abkhaz to represent an Uvular ejective Bashkir Qa or Bashkir Ka (Ҡ ҡ is a Cyrillic letter used in the Bashkir language. Ka with hook ( Majuscule: Ӄ, minuscule: ӄ) is a Cyrillic letter currently used in the Khanty and Chukchi language. Ka with vertical stroke ( Majuscule: Ҝ, minuscule: ҝ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Azeri. El with tail ( Majuscule: Ӆ, minuscule: ӆ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used only in Klidin Sami language, located between Em with tail ( Majuscule: Ӎ, minuscule: ӎ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet only now used in Kildin Sami language. Ligature En Ge ( Majuscule: Ҥ, minuscule: ҥ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in the non-Slavic languages Altai, Bashkir The Cyrillic letter N with descender or Ng (in Kazakh) (Ң ң is an Н with a Descender. En with tail ( Majuscule: minuscule: is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet now only used in Kildin Sami language. En with hook ( Majuscule: Ӈ, minuscule: ӈ) is a letter of Cyrillic alphabet used in non-Slavic languages Even, Evenki O with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӧ, minuscule ӧ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet now used in the Kurdish, Altay, Khakass The Cyrillic letter Oe or Barred O (Ө ө is an O with a horizontal line through it Oe with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӫ, minuscule: ӫ) is a Cyrillic letter used in the Khanty and Even languages Abkhazian Kha ( Majuscule: Ҩ, minuscule: ҩ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in the Abkhaz language and placed Ҧ ( minuscule: ҧ) is a Cyrillic letter only used in Abkhaz. Ҏ ( minuscule: ҏ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Kildin Sami to represent a voiceless trill ( IPA Es with descender or The (not the same as the Definite article) in Bashkir ( Majuscule: Ҫ, minuscule: ҫ) is a Cyrillic Te with descender ( Majuscule: Ҭ, minuscule: ҭ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Abkhaz, where it represents aspirated U with double acute ( Majuscule: Ӳ, minuscule: ӳ) is used for the Chuvash language. U with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӱ, minuscule: ӱ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet to be used for the Khakass, Mari, U with macron ( Majuscule: Ӯ, minuscule: ӯ) is a letter of the Cyrillic Alphabet used for the Tajik language. The Cyrillic letter Straight U (Ү ү (in Mongolian, Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir languages Buryat and Kalmyk langugages and many others The Cyrillic letter Straight U with stroke (Ұ ұ is a straight Cyrillic У with a horizontal line through it Kha with Descender or Soft Kha ( Majuscule: Ҳ, minuscule: ҳ) is a letter of certain Cyrillic alphabets such as Abkhaz Shha or He (Һ һ is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet used in Bashkir, Ligature Te Tse ( Majuscule: Ҵ, minuscule: ҵ) is a Cyrillic ligature used only for the Abkhaz language, located between Che with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӵ, minuscule: ӵ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet now used in Udmurt language where it is the Che with descender ( Majuscule: Ҷ, minuscule: ҷ) is a letter of Tajik Cyrillic alphabet to represent the Affricate /ʤ/ Khakassian Che ( Majuscule: Ӌ, minuscule ӌ) is a letter of Cyrillic alphabet only now used in Khakas language. Che with vertical stroke ( Majuscule: Ҹ, minuscule: ҹ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Azeri. Yery with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӹ, minuscule: ӹ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used for writing the Mari language. The semisoft sign ( Majuscule: Ҍ, minuscule: ҍ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used only in Kildin Sami, indicating E with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӭ, minuscule: ӭ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet currently used in Kildin Sami. The original Cyrillic alphabet was a writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire in the tenth century to write the Old Church Slavonic Liturgical The letter koppa in the Early Cyrillic alphabet Uk (Оу оу is a letter of the Early Cyrillic alphabet. It was originally a Digraph of о and either {{unicode|ѵ}} or у Omega,, is a letter used in the Early Cyrillic alphabet, descended from the Greek Omega, Ω ω Broad On (majuscule Ѻ, minuscule ѻ) is a variety of the regular Cyrillic letter "On" (О о used in Church Slavonic: italics. IPA is used to make sure that old Cyrillic is displayed properly Ya (Я я is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, representing either the combination /ja/ (a so-called Iotated vowel) or /a/ after a palatalized consonant E iotified (Ѥ ѥ is a letter of the Early Cyrillic alphabet. Little Yus and Big Yus, or Jus, are the letters representing two Common Slavonic Nasal vowels in the early Cyrillic and Little Yus and Big Yus, or Jus, are the letters representing two Common Slavonic Nasal vowels in the early Cyrillic and Little Yus and Big Yus, or Jus, are the letters representing two Common Slavonic Nasal vowels in the early Cyrillic and Little Yus and Big Yus, or Jus, are the letters representing two Common Slavonic Nasal vowels in the early Cyrillic and Psi (Ѱ ѱ is a letter in the Early Cyrillic alphabet, derived from the Greek letter psi (Ψ ψ For the acronym see FITA Fita (Ѳ ѳ is a letter of the Early Cyrillic alphabet, descended from the Greek Theta. Izhitsa ( Ѵ, ѵ; И́жица is a letter of the Early Cyrillic alphabet. Izhitsa ( Ѵ, ѵ; И́жица is a letter of the Early Cyrillic alphabet. Variants of the Cyrillic alphabet are used by the Writing systems of many languages especially languages used in the former Soviet Union The Cyrillic alphabet (səˈrɪlɪk also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters is actually a family of Alphabets, subsets of which are used by

In some languages variations of this letter are used:

History

Historically, this letter evolved as a specifically East Slavic short form of the digraph оу used in ancient Slavic texts to represent /u/. Short U (Ў ў is a letter of the Belarusian Cyrillic alphabet. Length The breve sign indicates a short vowel as opposed to the Macron  ¯ which indicates long vowels in academic transcription The Belarusian language, or Belorussian,(беларуская мова BGN/PCGN: byelaruskaya mova, Scientific: belaruskaja mova The Dungan language is a Sinitic language spoken by the Dungan of Central Asia, an ethnic group related to the Hui people of China Siberian Yupik (also known as Central Siberian Yupik, Bering Strait Yupik, Yuit, Yoit, or Yuk) is the language of the Siberian Uzbek ( O‘zbek tili or O'zbekcha in Latin script, Ўзбек тили in Cyrillic script; أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی in Arabic A macron, from Greek el μακρόv ( makrón) meaning "long" is a Diacritic ¯ placed over or under a Vowel which was originally The Tajik language, or Tajik Persian, or Tajiki, (sometimes written Tadjik or Tadzhik; тоҷикӣ, tg-Latn ''tojikí'') is a modern In Linguistics, diaeresis, or dieresis, is the pronunciation of two adjacent Vowels in two separate Syllables rather than as a Diphthong Altay is a language of the Turkic group of languages It is an official language of Altai Republic, Russia. Khakas is a Turkic language spoken by the Khakas people who mainly live in the southern Siberian Khakas Republic or Khakassia, in Russia The Gagauz language ( Gagauz dili) is a Turkic language, spoken by the Gagauz people, and the official language of Gagauzia, Republic Khanty or Xanty language, also known as the Ostyak language, is a Language of the Khant peoples. The Mari language (Mari chm марий йылме marii jylme, марийский язык spoken by more than 600000 people belongs to the Finno-Ugric The double acute accent ( ˝) is a Diacritic mark of the Latin script used primarily in written Hungarian. Chuvash (Chuvash Чӑвашла Čăvašla, ʨəʋaʂˈla also known as Chăvash, Chuwash, Chovash, Chavash, Çuvaş The Cyrillic letter Straight U (Ү ү (in Mongolian, Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir languages Buryat and Kalmyk langugages and many others The Mongolian language (mn [[ImageMonggol kelesvg 17px]] Mongɣol kele, Cyrillic: Монгол хэл Mongol khel) is the best-known member of Kazakh (also Qazaq and variants natively kk Qazaq tili, kk Қазақ тілі; pronounced tˈlə is a Turkic language closely related to The Tatar language (,, Татар теле, Татарча) is a Turkic Language spoken by the Tatars. The Bashkir language is a Turkic language. Speakers The 2002 population census showed under 1000000 native speakers of the Bashkir language living in The Dungan language is a Sinitic language spoken by the Dungan of Central Asia, an ethnic group related to the Hui people of China The Cyrillic letter Straight U with stroke (Ұ ұ is a straight Cyrillic У with a horizontal line through it A bar or stroke is a modification consisting of a line drawn through a Grapheme. Kazakh (also Qazaq and variants natively kk Qazaq tili, kk Қазақ тілі; pronounced tˈlə is a Turkic language closely related to Old East Slavic, also known as Old Russian (древнерусский or Old Ruthenian, was a vernacular literary language used from the 10th to the 14th centuries Uk (Оу оу is a letter of the Early Cyrillic alphabet. It was originally a Digraph of о and either {{unicode|ѵ}} or у to make sure old Cyrillic letters are displayed properly (For example instead of just Ѣ write Ѣ The digraph was itself a direct loan from the Greek alphabet, where the combination ου (omicron-upsilon) was also used to represent /u/. The Greek alphabet (Ελληνικό αλφάβητο is a set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early The Greek alphabet (Ελληνικό αλφάβητο is a set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early Omicron or Omikron (uppercase Ο, lowercase ο, literally "small o": Όμικρον o mikron, micron meaning 'small' in contrast Upsilon (uppercase &Upsilon, lowercase υ Ύψιλον is the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet.

Consequently, the form of the letter is derived from Greek upsilon, which was parallelly also taken over into the Cyrillic alphabet in another form, as izhitsa (Ѵ). Upsilon (uppercase &Upsilon, lowercase υ Ύψιλον is the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet. Izhitsa ( Ѵ, ѵ; И́жица is a letter of the Early Cyrillic alphabet. (The letter izhitsa was removed from the Russian alphabet in the orthography reform of 1917/19. The modern Russian alphabet is a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet. The modern Russian alphabet is a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet. )

Footnotes

  1. ^ However, many Dungan books are in fact set using Ӯ (with macron) instead of Ў with breve, e. Short U (Ў ў is a letter of the Belarusian Cyrillic alphabet. g. the Dungan-Russian dictionary (1968). There is never an ambiguity, as this is the only У-with-a-diacritic in Dungan. It is used in Dungan syllables where pinyin would use -u, except in those with labial consonants (i. Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most common Standard Mandarin Romanization system in use e. in du, ' nu, lu, gu, hu, zu, ru, etc. , but not bu or mu)
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