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For the letter E (E e) of the Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian and Ukrainian alphabets, see Ye (Cyrillic).
Э э (Ээ; italics: Ээ; also known as backwards ye, from Russianе оборо́тное, ye oborótnoye, [ˈjɛɐbɐˈrotnəjə]) is a letter found in three Slavic languages: Russian, Belarusian, and West Polesian. It represents the vowels[e] and [ɛ], as the e in the word "editor". In other Slavic languages that use the Cyrillic script, the sounds are represented by Ye (Ее), which represents in Russian and Belarusian [je] in initial and postvocalic position or [e] and palatalizes the preceding consonant. This letter closely resembles and should not be confused with the older Cyrillic letter Ukrainian Ye (Є є), of which Э is a reversed version.
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