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The Cyrillic alphabet and Russian spelling generally employ fewer diacritics than those used in other European languages written with the Latin alphabet. The only diacritic, in the proper sense, is the acute accent ́ (Russian: знак ударения 'mark of stress'), which marks stress on a vowel, as it is done in Spanish and Greek.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 January 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 ...
A ukase written in the 17th-century Russian chancery cursive. The Russian (and Cyrillic in general) cursive was developed during the 18th century on the base of the earlier Cyrillic tachygraphic writing (ско́ропись, skoropis, "rapid or running script"), which in turn was the 14th–17th-century chancery hand of the earlier Cyrillic bookhand scripts (called ustav and poluustav).
The Russian spelling alphabet at right (PDF) The Russian spelling alphabet is a spelling alphabet (or "phonetic alphabet") for Russian, i.e. a set of names given to the alphabet letters for the purpose of unambiguous verbal spelling. It is used primarily by the Russian army, navy and the police.
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE 0493: ғ: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Kazakh; full bar form preferred over half-barred "F"-type. 0494: Ҕ: CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH MIDDLE HOOK 0495: ҕ: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH MIDDLE HOOK Used in Yakut, as well as inolder orthographies for Abkhaz. 0496: Җ
It may be a ligature, formed from combining two "K" letters (one backward form) sharing a common stem. [ citation needed ] Some Ukrainian scholars argue that it is shape of beetle, since Zhe is the first phoneme in the Slavic word жукъ ( žuk ), meaning "beetle".
The form has been used regularly in Church Slavonic since the 16th century, but it officially became a separate letter of alphabet only much later (in Russian in 1918). The original name of й was I s kratkoy ('I with the short [line]'), later I kratkoye ('short I') in Russian.
The details vary by author, and depend on which letters are available for the language of the text. For instance, in a work written in Ukrainian, г may be used for (the voiced equivalent of х ), whereas in Russian texts, г is used for . This article follows common Russian usage.