U with diaeresis (Cyrillic)

Not to be confused with the Latin letter Ÿ.

For the Ü used in Turkic languages that use the Cyrillic script, see Ue (Cyrillic).

U with diaeresis
Ӱ ӱ
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	[y]
History
Development	УԐ уԑ У: у: Ӱ ӱ

U with diaeresis (Ӱ ӱ; italics: Ӱ ӱ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, derived from the Cyrillic letter U (У у У у).

U with diaeresis is used in the alphabets of the Altai, Khakas, Khanty, Mari and Shor languages, where it represents the close front rounded vowel /y/, the pronunciation of the Latin letter U with umlaut (Ü ü) in German. It is also used in the Komi-Yodzyak language.

Usage

The Cyrillic U with diaeresis was formally used in the Rusyn language and used in the Cyrillization of Albanian.

It is also used in the Russian language in loanwords.

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Ӱ		ӱ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1264	U+04F0	1265	U+04F1
UTF-8	211 176	D3 B0	211 177	D3 B1
Numeric character reference	Ӱ	Ӱ	ӱ	ӱ

See also

• Ü ü : Latin U with diaeresis - an Azerbaijani, Estonian, German, Hungarian, Turkish, and Turkmen letter
• Ư ư : Latin letter U with horn, used in Vietnamese alphabet
• Y y : Latin letter Y
• Ӳ ӳ : Cyrillic letter U with double acute
• Ү ү : Cyrillic letter Ue
• Ұ ұ : Cyrillic letter straight U with stroke (Kazakh mid U)
• U u: Latin letter U, same sound in French, Icelandic and Dutch
• Cyrillic characters in Unicode