U (Cyrillic)

Not to be confused with the Latin lettersUorY,the Greek lettersΥ (upsilon)orγ (gamma),or the Cyrillic letterҮ (ue).

Cyrillic letter U
Phonetic usage:	[u], [ʊ], [ʌ], [w]
Numeric value:	400
Derived from:	Either fromGreek letter Upsilon(Υ υ) or simplified fromCyrillic letter Uk(Оу оу)
TheCyrillic script
Slavicletters
А А̀ А̂ А̄ Ӓ Б В Г Ґ Д Ђ Ѓ Е Ѐ Е̄ Е̂ Ё Є Ж З З́ Ѕ И І Ї Ꙇ Ѝ И̂ Ӣ Й Ј К Л Љ М Н Њ О О̀ О̂ Ō Ӧ П Р С С́ Т Ћ Ќ У У̀ У̂ Ӯ Ў Ӱ Ф Х Ц Ч Џ Ш Щ Ꙏ Ъ Ъ̀ Ы Ь Ѣ Э Ю Ю̀ Я Я̀
Non-Slavic letters
Ӑ А̊ А̃ Ӓ̄ Ӕ Ә Ә́ Ә̃ Ӛ В̌ Ԝ Г̑ Г̇ Г̣ Г̌ Г̂ Г̆ Г̈ г̊ Ҕ Ғ Ӻ Ғ̌ ғ̊ Ӷ Д́ Д̌ Д̈ Д̣ Д̆ Ӗ Е̃ Ё̄ Є̈ Ԑ Ԑ̈ Җ Ӝ Ӂ Ж̣ Ҙ Ӟ З̌ З̣ З̆ Ӡ И̃ Ӥ Ҋ Қ Ӄ Ҡ Ҟ Ҝ К̣ к̊ қ̊ Ԛ ᴫ Л́ Ӆ Ԯ Ԓ Л̈ Ӎ ᵸ Н́ Ӊ Ң Ԩ Ӈ Ҥ О̆ О̃ Ӧ̄ Ө Ө̄ Ө́ Ө̆ Ӫ Ԥ П̈ Ҏ Р̌ С̌ Ҫ С̣ С̱ Т́ Т̈ Т̌ Т̇ Т̣ Ҭ Ᲊ У̃ Ӳ У̊ Ӱ̄ Ұ Ү Ү́ Х̣ Х̱ Х̮ Х̑ Х̌ Ҳ Ӽ х̊ Ӿ ӿ̊ Һ Һ̈ Ԧ Ц̌ Ц̈ Ҵ Ҷ Ҷ̣ Ӵ Ӌ Ҹ Ч̇ Ч̣ Ҽ Ҿ Ш̣ ꚜ Ы̆ Ы̄ Ӹ ꚝ Ҍ Ҩ Э̆ Э̄ Э̇ Ӭ Ӭ́ Ӭ̄ Ю̆ Ю̈ Ю̄ Я̆ Я̄ Я̈ Ӏ ʼ ˮ
Archaicor unused letters
А̨ Б̀ Б̣ Б̱ В̀ Г̀ Г̧ Г̄ Г̓ Г̆ Ҕ̀ Ҕ̆ Ԁ Д̓ Д̀ Д̨ Ԃ Ꚁ Ꙣ Е̇ Е̨ Ж̀ Ж̑ Ꙃ Ꙅ Џ̆ Ꚅ Ꚅ̆ Ꙁ З̀ З̑ Ԅ Ԇ Ꚉ Ԫ Ꚃ Ꚕ І̂ І̣ І̨ Ј̵ Ј̃ Ꙉ К̓ К̀ К̆ Ӄ̆ К̑ К̇ К̈ К̄ Ԟ К̂ Л̀ Ԡ Ꙥ Ԉ Л̑ Л̇ Ԕ М̀ М̃ Ꙧ Н̀ Н̄ Н̧ Н̃ Ԋ Ԣ Н̡ Ѻ Ꙩ Ꙫ Ꙭ ꙮ Ꚙ Ꚛ П̓ П̀ П́ Ҧ П̧ П̑ Ҁ Ԛ̆ Р́ Р̀ Р̃ Ԗ С̀ С̈ Ԍ Ҫ̓ Т̓ Т̀ Ԏ Т̑ Ꚋ Т̧ Ꚍ Ꚍ̆ Ѹ Ꙋ У̇ У̨ ꙋ́ Ф̑ Ф̓ Х́ Х̀ Х̆ Х̇ Х̧ Х̾ Х̓ һ̱ Ѡ Ꙍ Ѽ Ѿ Ꙡ Ц̀ Ц́ Ц̓ Ꚏ Ꚏ̆ Ꚑ Ч́ Ч̀ Ч̆ Ч̑ Ч̓ Ԭ Ꚓ Ꚇ Ꚇ̆ Ҽ̆ Ш̀ Ш̆ Ш̑ Щ̆ Ꚗ Ꚗ̆ Ъ̄ Ъ̈ Ъ̈̄ Ꙑ Ы̂ Ы̃ Ѣ́ Ѣ̈ Ѣ̆ Ꙓ Э̨ Э̂ Ꙕ Ю̂ Ꙗ Я̈ Я̂ Я̨ Ԙ Ѥ Ѧ Ꙙ Ѫ Ꙛ Ѩ Ꙝ Ѭ Ѯ Ѱ Ѳ Ѵ Ѷ Ꙟ
List of Cyrillic letters List of Cyrillic multigraphs

U(У у; italics:У у) is a letter of theCyrillic script.It commonly represents theclose back rounded vowel/u/,somewhat like the pronunciation of⟨oo⟩in "boot "or" rule ". The forms of the Cyrillic letter U aresimilarto the lowercase of the Latin letterY(Y y;Y y), with the lowercase Cyrillic letter U's form being identical to that of small Latin letter Y.

History

U,fromAlexandre Benois' 1904Alpha bet book.It showsUlitsa(street) anduraganʺ(hurricane).

APFM-1training mine, distinguishable from the live version by the presence of the letter У (short for учебный,uchebnyy,"for training" ).

Historically, Cyrillic U evolved as a specificallyEast Slavicshort form of the digraph⟨оу⟩used in ancientSlavictexts to represent/u/.The digraph was itself a direct loan from theGreek Alpha bet,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 Greekupsilon⟨Υ υ⟩,which was parallelly also taken over into the Cyrillic Alpha bet in another form, asIzhitsa⟨Ѵ⟩.(The letter Izhitsa was removed from theRussian Alpha betin theorthography reform of 1917/19.)

It is normally romanised as "u", but in Kazakh, it is romanised as "w".

In theCyrillic numeral system,the Cyrillic letter U had a value of 400.

In other languages

InTuvanthe Cyrillic letter can be written as adouble vowel.

In certain languages, U is used to marklabialization.

Related letters and other similar characters

Similarity withY(uppercase): The grapheme on the left is clearly a Cyrillic U, the one in the middle may represent both letters, the one on the right is clearly a Greek or Latin Y.

• Υ υ:Greek letter Upsilon
• U u:Latin letter U
• Y y:Latin letter Y
• Ў ў:Cyrillic letter Short U,used inBelarusian,Dungan,Siberian Eskimo (Yuit),Uzbek
• Ӯ ӯ:Cyrillic letter U with macron,used inTajikandCarpatho-Rusyn
• Ӱ ӱ:Cyrillic letter U with diaeresis,used inAltai (Oyrot),Khakas,Gagauz,Khanty,Mari
• Ӳ ӳ:Cyrillic letter U with double acute,used inChuvash
• Ү ү:Cyrillic letter straight U,used inMongolian,Kazakh,Tatar,Bashkir,Dunganand other languages
• Ұ ұ:Cyrillic letter Straight U with stroke,used inKazakh
• Ꭹ Ꮍ: The syllablesgiandmuof theCherokee syllabary;Ꭹ (gi) notably appearing in the Cherokee self-designation ᏣᎳᎩ (Tsalagi)
• ע: The Hebrew letter Ayin
• У̊:Cyrillic letter U with ring,used inshugnhi orthography.

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	У		у
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-RandKOI8-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

External links

• The dictionary definition ofУat Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition ofуat Wiktionary