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U (Cyrillic)
Cyrillic letter
Cyrillic letter
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| letter | У у |
| script | Cyrillic |
| type | Alphabet |
| typedesc | ic |
| name | U |
| image | Cyrillic letter U - uppercase and lowercase.svg |
| imageclass | skin-invert-image |
| phonemes | [], [] |
| number | 400 (Cyrillic numerals) |
| fam1 | Υ υ and Ο ο |
| fam2 | Ѹ ѹ |
| language | Old Church Slavonic |
| unicode | U+0423, U+0443 |
| equivalents | U u |
U (У у; italics: У у or У у; italics: У у) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the close back rounded vowel , somewhat like the pronunciation of in "boot" or "boo". The forms of the Cyrillic letter U are similar to the lowercase of the Latin letter Y (Y y; Y y).
History
Historically, Cyrillic U evolved as a specifically East Slavic short form of the digraph used in ancient Slavic texts to represent . The digraph was itself a direct loan from the Greek alphabet, where the combination (omicron-upsilon) was also used to represent . Later, the o was removed, leaving the modern upsilon-only form.
Consequently, the form of the letter is derived from Greek upsilon , which was parallelly also taken over into the Cyrillic alphabet in another form, as Izhitsa . (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.
In other languages
In Tuvan the Cyrillic letter can be written as a double vowel.
In certain languages, U is used to mark labialization.
Related letters and other similar characters
- Υ υ : Greek letter Upsilon
- U u : Latin letter U
- Ú ú : Latin letter Ú
- Y y : Latin letter Y
- Ў ў : Cyrillic letter Short U, used in Belarusian, Dungan, Siberian Eskimo (Yuit), Uzbek
- Ӯ ӯ : Cyrillic letter U with macron, used in Tajik and Carpatho-Rusyn
- Ӱ ӱ : Cyrillic letter U with diaeresis, used in Altai (Oyrot), Khakas, Gagauz, Khanty, Mari
- Ӳ ӳ : Cyrillic letter U with double acute, used in Chuvash
- Ү ү : Cyrillic letter straight U, used in Mongolian, Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir, Dungan and other languages
- Ұ ұ : Cyrillic letter Straight U with stroke, used in Kazakh
- Ꭹ Ꮍ : The syllables gi and mu of the Cherokee syllabary; Ꭹ (gi) notably appearing in the Cherokee self-designation ᏣᎳᎩ (Tsalagi)
- ע: The Hebrew letter Ayin
- У̊: Cyrillic letter U with ring, used in Shugnhi orthography.
Computing codes
|0423|name1=Cyrillic Capital Letter U |0443|name2=Cyrillic Small Letter U
References
References
- "Tuvan language, alphabet and pronunciation". omniglot.com.
- (24 July 2013). "Compendium of the World's Languages". Routledge.
- However, many Dungan books are set using Ӯ, with macron, instead of [[short U. Ў]], with breve, like the Dungan-Russian dictionary (1968). There is no ambiguity since it is the only У-with-a-diacritic in Dungan. It is used in Dungan syllables for which [[pinyin]] would use ''-u'' except in those with labial consonants (in ''du'', ' ''nu'', ''lu'', ''gu'', ''hu'', ''zu'', ''ru'', etc. but not ''bu'' or ''mu'')
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