Yu (Cyrillic)

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Yu (Cyrillic)

Yu or Ju ю; italics: Ю ю) is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in East Slavic and Bulgarian alphabets.

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Yu
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic
Sound values[ju]
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and  , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.
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Yu, from the Alphabet Book оf the Red Army Soldier (1921)

In English, Yu is commonly romanized as yu or ju. In turn, ю is used, where available, in transcriptions of English letter u (in open syllables), and also of the ew digraph. The sound [y], like u in French and ü in German, may also be approximated by the letter ю.

Pronunciation

Sometimes, it is referred to as "Iotated U" because it is a so-called iotated vowel, pronounced in isolation as /ju/, like the pronunciation of u in "human". After a consonant, no distinct [j] sound is pronounced, but the consonant is softened. The exact pronunciation of the vowel sound of ю in Slavic languages depends also on the succeeding sound. Before a soft consonant, it is [ʉ], the close central rounded vowel, as in 'rude'. Before a hard consonant or at the end of a word, the result is a back vowel [u], as in "pool".

History

Apart from the form I-O, in early Slavonic manuscripts the letter appears also in a mirrored form O-I (Ꙕ, ꙕ).[1] It is the latter form that is probably the original,[citation needed] precisely displaying the Greek combination omicron-iota (οι). At the time that the Greek alphabet was adapted to the Slavonic language giving rise to the Cyrillic alphabet, it denoted the close front rounded vowel /y/ in educated Greek speech. The close front rounded vowel does not appear in East Slavic. See above.

There was another way for it to lead to the modern form. By the analogy to several 'iotated' letters Ѥ, , Ѩ and Ѭ, the ancient ligature (or letter) Uk оѵ/оу possibly had its iotated form іоѵ/іоу.[citation needed]

The iotated big Yus Ѭ merged itself to ю in East Slavic languages.[citation needed]

Ю is the Voice Quality Symbol for tracheo-œsophageal speech (the symbol attempts to capture iconically the dual nature of the airstream).

Computing codes

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Character information
PreviewЮю
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YU CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YU CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER REVERSED YU CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER REVERSED YU
Encodingsdecimalhexdechexdechexdechex
Unicode1070U+042E1102U+044E42580U+A65442581U+A655
UTF-8208 174D0 AE209 142D1 8E234 153 148EA 99 94234 153 149EA 99 95
Numeric character referenceЮЮююꙔꙔꙕꙕ
Named character referenceЮю
KOI8-R and KOI8-U224E0192C0
Code page 8551579D1569C
Windows-1251222DE254FE
ISO-8859-5206CE238EE
Macintosh Cyrillic1589E254FE
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