Ue (Cyrillic)
Cyrillic letter
Ue or Straight U (Ү ү; italics: Ү ү) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. 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 in used the alphabets of the Tuvan, Bashkir, Buryat, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Sakha, Turkmen, Tatar, Azerbajiani and other languages. It commonly represents the front rounded vowels /y/ and /ʏ/ in most Turkic languages, except in Mongolian where it represents /u/.
In Tuvan and Kyrgyz the Cyrillic letter can be written as a double vowel.
01Computing 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 |
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- Cyrillic letter Ue.svg by Пакко, Public domain
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