Ue or Straight U (Ү ү; italics:
''Ү ү'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking c ...
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[ 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
Case or CASE may refer to:
Containers
* Case (goods), a package of related merchandise
* Cartridge case or casing, a firearm cartridge component
* Bookcase, a piece of furniture used to store books
* Briefcase or attaché case, a narrow box to ca ...
. The lower case resembles the lower case of the Greek letter Gamma.
Ue is used the alphabets of the Bashkir, Buryat, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Kyrgyz Kyrgyz, Kirghiz or Kyrgyzstani may refer to:
* Someone or something related to Kyrgyzstan
*Kyrgyz people
*Kyrgyz national games
*Kyrgyz language
*Kyrgyz culture
*Kyrgyz cuisine
*Yenisei Kirghiz
*The Fuyü Gïrgïs language in Northeastern China
...
, Mongolian, Turkmen, Tatar
The Tatars ()[Tatar]
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different and other languages. It commonly represents the front rounded vowel
A front rounded vowel is a particular type of vowel that is both front and rounded.
The front rounded vowels defined by the IPA include:
* , a close front rounded vowel (or "high front rounded vowel")
* , a near-close front rounded vowel (or " ...
s and , except in Mongolian where it represents .
In Tuvan and Kyrgyz the Cyrillic letter can be written as a double vowel.
Computing codes
See also
*Ü ü : Latin letter U with diaeresis - an Azerbaijani, Chinese, Estonian, German, Hungarian, Turkish and Turkmen letter
*Ư ư : Latin letter U with horn, used in Vietnamese alphabet
The Vietnamese alphabet ( vi, chữ Quốc ngữ, lit=script of the National language) is the modern Latin writing script or writing system for Vietnamese. It uses the Latin script based on Romance languages originally developed by Portuguese m ...
*Y y : Latin letter Y
*Ӱ ӱ : Cyrillic letter U with diaeresis
*Ӳ ӳ : Cyrillic letter U with double acute
*Ұ ұ : Cyrillic letter straight U with stroke ( Kazakh mid U)
*Γ γ : Greek letter Gamma
*Cyrillic characters in Unicode
As of Unicode version 15.0 Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks:
* CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters
* Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0–U+2DFF 32 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-BU ...
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