U with diaeresis (Ӱ ӱ; italics:
''Ӱ ӱ'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic 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, ...
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[ derived from the Cyrillic letter U (У у ''У у'').
U with diaeresis is used in the alphabets of the Altai, ]Khakas
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The Khakhassian ...
, Khanty
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, Mari and Shor languages, where it represents the close front rounded vowel
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, the pronunciation of the Latin letter U with umlaut (Ü ü) in German. It is also used in the Komi-Yodzyak language
The Komi-Yazva language (Коми-Ёдз кыл, ''Komi-Yodz kyl'') is spoken mostly in Krasnovishersky District of Perm Krai in Russia, in the basin of the Yazva (Yodz) River. It is a Permic language closely related to Komi-Zyrian and Per ...
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Usage
Cyrillic U with Diaeresis was formally used in The Rusyn language
Rusyn (; rue, label=Rusyn language#Carpathian Rusyn, Carpathian Rusyn, русиньскый язык, translit=rusîn'skyj jazyk; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, руски язик, translit=ruski jazik),http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2781/1/2011Bapt ...
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Computing codes
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
The Vietnamese alphabet ( vi, chữ Quốc ngữ, lit=script of the National language) is the modern Latin writing script or writing system for Vietnamese language, Vietnamese. It uses the Latin script based on Romance languages originally develo ...
*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)
*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 ...
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