U with ring above (У̊ у̊) 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 ...
, used in the
Shughni language
Shughni or Shughnani-Rushani is one of the Pamir languages of the Southeastern Iranian language group.Karamšoev, Dodchudo K. (1988–99). ''Šugnansko-russkij slovar''. 3 vols. Moskva: Nauka. (Vol. 2), / (Vol. 3) Its distribution is in the ...
and formerly in 19th-century
Lithuanian Cyrillic.
Uses
It is the 32nd letter of the Shughni alphabet between
Ó¯ and
Ф, representing . Sometimes the digraph уо is used instead.
U with ring above was also used in Lithuanian writing, notably in the orthography of
Jonas Juška,
after the defeat in the
January Uprising of 1863 and the following ban on Latin writing in official documents from 1864 to 1904.
Computing codes
This letter is not a
precomposed character
A precomposed character (alternatively composite character or decomposable character) is a Unicode entity that can also be defined as a sequence of one or more other characters. A precomposed character may typically represent a letter with a diac ...
. It needs to be composed using + and +.
See also
* Ů ů :
Latin letter U with ring - a Czech letter
References
Cyrillic letters
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