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|uuc=0423|ulc=0443|derived=[[Ou (ligature)|Greek letter Ou (ligature)]] (Ȣ ȣ)|numeral=400}} |
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'''U''' (У у; italics: <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">''У у''</span>) is a letter of the [[Cyrillic script]]. It commonly represents the [[close back rounded vowel]] {{IPA|/u/}}, somewhat like the pronunciation of {{angle bracket|oo}} in "b'''oo'''t" or r'''u'''le. The forms of the Cyrillic letter U are [[Homoglyph|similar]] to the lowercase of the Latin letter [[Y]] (Y y; <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">''Y y''</span>). |
'''U''' (У у; italics: <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">''У у''</span>) is a letter of the [[Cyrillic script]]. It commonly represents the [[close back rounded vowel]] {{IPA|/u/}}, somewhat like the pronunciation of {{angle bracket|oo}} in "b'''oo'''t" or r'''u'''le. The forms of the Cyrillic letter U are [[Homoglyph|similar]] to the lowercase of the Latin letter [[Y]] (Y y; <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">''Y y''</span>). |
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[[File:Russische Schmetterlingsmine PFM-1.jpg|thumb|right|A [[PFM-1]] training mine, distinguishable from the live version by the presence of the letter У (short for учебный, ''uchebnyy'', "for training").]] |
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[[File:Azbuka Benois - У.jpg|thumb|''U'', from [[Alexandre Benois]]' 1904 [[alphabet book]]]] |
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== History == |
== History == |
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Historically, Cyrillic U evolved as a specifically [[Old East Slavic language|East Slavic]] short form of the digraph {{angle bracket|[[Uk (Cyrillic)|оу]]}} used in ancient [[Old Church Slavonic|Slavic]] texts to represent {{IPA|/u/}}. The digraph was itself a direct loan from the [[Greek alphabet]], where the combination {{angle bracket|[[Greek alphabet#Digraphs and diphthongs|ου]]}} ([[omicron]]-[[upsilon]]) was also used to represent {{IPA|/u/}}. Later, the o was removed, leaving the modern upsilon-only form. |
Historically, Cyrillic U evolved as a specifically [[Old East Slavic language|East Slavic]] short form of the digraph {{angle bracket|[[Uk (Cyrillic)|оу]]}} used in ancient [[Old Church Slavonic|Slavic]] texts to represent {{IPA|/u/}}. The digraph was itself a direct loan from the [[Greek alphabet]], where the combination {{angle bracket|[[Greek alphabet#Digraphs and diphthongs|ου]]}} ([[omicron]]-[[upsilon]]) was also used to represent {{IPA|/u/}}. Later, the o was removed, leaving the modern upsilon-only form. |
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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 "boot" or rule. The forms of the Cyrillic letter U are similar to the lowercase of the Latin letter Y (Y y; Y y).
Historically, Cyrillic U evolved as a specifically East Slavic short form of the digraph ⟨оу⟩ used in ancient Slavic texts to represent /u/. The digraph was itself a direct loan from the Greek alphabet, where the combination ⟨ου⟩ (omicron-upsilon) was also used to represent /u/. Later, the o was removed, leaving the modern upsilon-only form.
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 Cyrillic numeral system, the Cyrillic letter U had a value of 400.
InTuvan the Cyrillic letter can be written as a double vowel.[1][2]
In certain languages, U is used to mark labialization.
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 |