Kazakh Short U (Ұ ұ; italics: ''Ұ ұ'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
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. In
Unicode
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, this letter is called "Straight U with stroke". Its form is the Cyrillic letter Ue (Ү ү ''Ү ү'') with a horizontal stroke through it.
Kazakh Short U is used in the alphabet of the
Kazakh language
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, where it represents the
close back rounded vowel
The close back rounded vowel, or high back rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is u.
In ...
, or the
near-close near-back rounded vowel
The near-close near-back rounded vowel, or near-high near-back rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some vocal languages. The IPA symbol that represents this sound is . It is informally called "horseshoe u". Prior to 1989, there was ...
. In other circumstances, it is used as a replacement for the former letter to represent
close front rounded vowel
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in situations where it would be easily confused with Cyrillic letter У у. It is
romanized
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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+A ...
Japanese yen
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or
Chinese yuan
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