U with diaeresis (Cyrillic)

U with diaeresis
Ӱ ӱ
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	[y]
History
Development	УԐ уԑ У: у: Ӱ ӱ
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U with diaeresis (Ӱ ӱ; italics: Ӱ ӱ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, derived from the Cyrillic letter U (У у У у).

U with diaeresis is used in the alphabets of the Altai, Khakas, Khanty, Mari and Shor languages, where it represents the close front rounded vowel /y/, the pronunciation of the Latin letter U with umlaut (Ü ü) in German. It is also used in the Komi-Yodzyak language.

Usage

The Cyrillic U with diaeresis was formally used in the Rusyn language and used in the Cyrillization of Albanian.

It is also used in the Russian language in loanwords.

Computing codes

See also

• Ü ü : Latin U with diaeresis - an Azerbaijani, Estonian, German, Hungarian, Turkish, and Turkmen letter
• Ư ư : Latin letter U with horn, used in Vietnamese alphabet
• Y y : Latin letter Y, as used in Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish for this sound /y/
• Ӳ ӳ : Cyrillic letter U with double acute
• Ү ү : Cyrillic letter Ue
• Ұ ұ : Cyrillic letter straight U with stroke (Kazakh mid U)
• U u: Latin letter U, same sound in French, Icelandic and Dutch
• Cyrillic characters in Unicode

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