U with diaeresis (Ӱ ӱ; italics: Ӱ ӱ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script,[1] 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[2] and used in the Cyrillization of Albanian.
Computing codes
| Preview | Ӱ | ӱ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1264 | U+04F0 | 1265 | U+04F1 |
| UTF-8 | 211 176 | D3 B0 | 211 177 | D3 B1 |
| Numeric character reference | Ӱ |
Ӱ |
ӱ |
ӱ |
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
- 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
References
- ^ "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0. 2010. p. 43. Retrieved 2011-05-15.
- ^ Ecolinguist (March 16, 2020). "Carpatho Rusyn Language | Can Ukrainian speakers understand? | #1| feat. @myhal-k". Youtube.