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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 "b oo t" or "r u le". 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 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 February 2025. See also: List of Cyrillic multigraphs Main articles: Cyrillic script, Cyrillic alphabets, and Early Cyrillic alphabet This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. This is a list of letters of the ...
Short U (Ў ў; italics: Ў ў) or U with breve is a letter of the Cyrillic script. The only Slavic language using the letter in its orthography is Belarusian , but it is also used as a phonetic symbol in some Russian and Ukrainian dictionaries. [ 1 ]
U with diaeresis (Ӱ ӱ; italics: Ӱ ӱ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, [1] derived from the Cyrillic letter U (У у У у). U with diaeresis is used in the alphabets of the Altai, Khakas, Khanty, Mari and Shor languages, where it represents the close front rounded vowel /y/, the pronunciation of the Latin letter U with umlaut (Ü ü) in ...
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHORT U 0423 0306: 045E: ў: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT U 0443 0306: Used in Belarusian, Dungan, Uzbek, and Siberian Yupik. 040F: Џ: CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DZHE 045F: џ: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZHE Used in Serbian, Macedonian, and Abkhaz. In Serbian and Macedonian, it is considered a separate letter, placed between Ч ...
Numerous Cyrillic alphabets are based on the Cyrillic script. The early Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the 9th century AD and replaced the earlier Glagolitic script developed by the theologians Cyril and Methodius. It is the basis of alphabets used in various languages, past and present, Slavic origin, and non-Slavic languages influenced by ...
The Cyrillic script family contains many specially treated two-letter combinations, or digraphs, but few of these are used in Slavic languages. In a few alphabets, trigraphs and even the occasional tetragraph or pentagraph are used. In early Cyrillic, the digraphs оу and оѵ were used for /u/.
The Early Cyrillic alphabet, also called classical Cyrillic or paleo-Cyrillic, is an alphabetic writing system that was developed in Medieval Bulgaria in the Preslav Literary School during the late 9th century. It is used to write the Church Slavonic language, and was historically used for its ancestor, Old Church Slavonic.