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; italics: Ӱ ӱ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script,^[1] derived from the Cyrillic letter U (У у У у).

U with diaeresis
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	[y]
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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^[2] and used in the Cyrillization of Albanian.

It is also used in the Russian language in loanwords.^[3]

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