Ue (Cyrillic)
Appearance
Ue or Straight U (Ү ү; italics: Ү ү) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.[1] It is a form of the Cyrillic letter U (У у У у) with a vertical, rather than diagonal, center line. Whereas a standard Cyrillic U resembles a lowercase Latin y, Ue instead uses the shape of a capital Latin Y, with each letter set higher or lower to establish its case. The lower case resembles the lower case of the Greek letter Gamma.
Ue is used the alphabets of the Bashkir, Buryat, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Turkmen, Tatar and other languages. It commonly represents the front rounded vowels /y/ and /ʏ/, except in Mongolian where it represents /u/.
In Tuvan and Kyrgyz the Cyrillic letter can be written as a double vowel.[2][3]
Computing codes
Preview | Ү | ү | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER STRAIGHT U |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER STRAIGHT U | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1198 | U+04AE | 1199 | U+04AF |
UTF-8 | 210 174 | D2 AE | 210 175 | D2 AF |
Numeric character reference | Ү |
Ү |
ү |
ү |
See also
- Ü ü : Latin letter U with diaeresis - an Azerbaijani, Estonian, German, Hungarian, and Turkish letter
- Ư ư : Latin letter U with horn, used in Vietnamese alphabet
- Y y : Latin letter Y
- Ӱ ӱ : Cyrillic letter U with diaeresis
- Ӳ ӳ : Cyrillic letter U with double acute
- Ұ ұ : Cyrillic letter straight U with stroke (Kazakh mid U)
- Γ γ : Greek letter Gamma
- Cyrillic characters in Unicode
References
- ^ "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0. 2010. p. 42. Retrieved 2011-05-16.
- ^ "Tuvan language, alphabet and pronunciation". omniglot.com. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
- ^ Campbell, George L.; King, Gareth (24 July 2013). Compendium of the World's Languages. Routledge. ISBN 9781136258459. Retrieved 14 June 2016 – via Google Books.