Ue or Straight U (Ò® Ò¯; italics:
''Ò® Ò¯'') 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 ...
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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. The lower case resembles the lower case of the Greek letter Gamma.
Ue is used the alphabets of the Bashkir, Buryat, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Sakha, Turkmen, Tatar and other languages. It commonly represents the front rounded vowels and in most Turkic languages, except in Mongolian where it represents .
In Tuvan and Kyrgyz the Cyrillic letter can be written as a ]double vowel Double letter may refer to:
*Digraph (orthography)#Homogeneous digraph - a type of digraph
* Gemination#Double letters that are not long consonants
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See also
*Ü ü : Latin letter U with diaeresis, used in the Azerbaijani, Estonian, German, Hungarian, Turkish, and Turkmen languages.
*Ư ư : Latin letter U with horn, used in Vietnamese alphabet
The Vietnamese alphabet (, ) is the modern writing script for the Vietnamese language. It uses the Latin script based on Romance languages like French language, French, originally developed by Francisco de Pina (1585–1625), a missionary from P ...
*Y y : Latin letter Y
*У у : Cyrillic letter U
*Ó° Ó± : Cyrillic letter U with diaeresis
*Ó² Ó³ : Cyrillic letter U with double acute
*Ò° Ò± : Cyrillic letter straight U with stroke ( Kazakh mid U)
*Γ γ : Greek letter Gamma
*Cyrillic characters in Unicode
As of Unicode version , 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+A64 ...
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