U with double acute (Ó² Ó³; italics:
''Ó² Ó³'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, C ...
,
[ derived from the Cyrillic letter U (У у ''У у'').
U with double acute is only used in the ]Chuvash language
Chuvash ( , ; , , ) is a Turkic languages, Turkic language spoken in European Russia, primarily in the Chuvashia, Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas. It is the only surviving member of the Oghur languages, Oghur branch of Turkic languages ...
, where it represents the close front rounded vowel
The close front rounded vowel, or high front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is y. Ac ...
, the pronunciation of the Latin letter U with umlaut (Ü ü) in German. It is placed between and in the Chuvash alphabet. It is usually romanized as ⟨Ü⟩ but its ISO 9
ISO 9 is an international standard establishing a system for the transliteration into Latin characters of Cyrillic characters constituting the alphabets of many Slavic and non-Slavic languages.
Published on February 23, 1995 by the Internation ...
transliteration is ⟨Ű⟩.
It was also formerly used in the Altai alphabet of 1840.
Computing codes
See also
*Ó° Ó± : Cyrillic letter U with diaeresis
*Ò® Ò¯ : Cyrillic letter Ue
*Ű ű : Latin letter U with double acute - a Hungarian letter
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