Yu (Cyrillic)

Cyrillic letter

Not to be confused with the Korean hangul syllable 어 (eo) or the Cyrillic letter yus.

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Cyrillic letter

Cyrillic letter Yu

Phonetic usage:| [ju]
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
| А| А̀| А̂| А̄| Ӓ| Б| В| Г

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Ґ| Д| Ђ| Ѓ| Е| Ѐ| Е̄| Е̂
Ё| Є| Ж| З| З́| Ѕ| И| І
Ї| Ꙇ| Ѝ| И̂| Ӣ| Й| Ј| К
Л| Љ| М| Н| Њ| О| О̀| О̂
Ō| Ӧ| П| Р| С| С́| Т| Ћ
Ќ| У| У̀| У̂| Ӯ| Ў| Ӱ| Ф
Х| Ц| Ч| Џ| Ш| Щ| Ꙏ| Ъ
Ъ̀| Ы| Ь| Ѣ| Э| Ю| Ю̀| Я
Я̀| | | | | | |
Non-Slavic letters
| Ӑ| А̊| А̃| Ӓ̄| Ӕ| Ә| Ә́| Ә̃

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Ӛ| В̌| Ԝ| Г̑| Г̇| Г̣| Г̌| Г̂
Г̆| Г̈| г̊| Ҕ| Ғ| | Ӻ| Ғ̌
ғ̊| Ӷ| | Д́| Д̌| Д̈| Д̣| Д̆
Ӗ| Е̃| Ё̄| Є̈| Ԑ| Ԑ̈| Җ| Ӝ
Ӂ| Ж̣| Ҙ| Ӟ| З̌| З̣| З̆| Ӡ
И̃| Ӥ| Ҋ| Қ| Ӄ| Ҡ| Ҟ| Ҝ
К̣| к̊| қ̊| Ԛ| ᴫ| Л́| Ӆ| Ԯ
Ԓ| Л̈| Ӎ| ᵸ| Н́| Ӊ| Ң| Ԩ
Ӈ| Ҥ| О̆| О̃| Ӧ̄| Ө| Ө̄| Ө́
Ө̆| Ӫ| Ԥ| П̈| Р̌| Ҏ| Р̌| С̌
Ҫ| С̣| С̱| Т́| Т̈| Т̌| Т̇| Т̣
Ҭ| | У̃| Ӳ| У̊| Ӱ̄| Ұ| Ү
Ү́| Х̣| Х̱| Х̮| Х̑| Х̌| Ҳ| Ӽ
х̊| Ӿ| ӿ̊| Һ| Һ̈| Ԧ| Ц̌| Ц̈
Ҵ| Ҷ| Ҷ̣| Ӵ| Ӌ| | Ҹ| Ч̇
Ч̣| Ҽ| Ҿ| Ш̣| ꚜ| Ы̆| Ы̄| Ӹ
ꚝ| Ҍ| Ҩ| Э̆| Э̄| Э̇| Ӭ| Ӭ́
Ӭ̄| Ю̆| Ю̈| Ю̄| Я̆| Я̄| Я̈| Ӏ
ʼ| ˮ| | | | | |
Archaic or unused letters
| | А̨| Б̀| Б̣| Б̱| В̀| Г̀| Г̧

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Г̄| Г̓| Г̆| Ҕ̀| Ҕ̆| | Ԁ| Д̓
Д̀| Д̨| | Ԃ| Ꚁ| Ꙣ| Е̇| Е̨
Ж̀| Ж̑| | | Ꙃ| Ꙅ| | Џ̆
Ꚅ| Ꚅ̆| Ꙁ| З̀| З̑| Ԅ| Ԇ| Ꚉ
Ԫ| Ꚃ| Ꚕ| | | І̂| І̣| І̨
| Ј̵| Ј̃| Ꙉ| К̓| К̀| К̆| Ӄ̆
К̑| К̇| К̈| К̄| Ԟ| К̂| |
Л̀| Ԡ| Ꙥ| Ԉ| Л̑| Л̇| Ԕ|
| | М̀| М̃| Ꙧ| Н̀| Н̄| Н̧
Н̃| Ԋ| Ԣ| Н̡| Ѻ| Ꙩ| Ꙫ| Ꙭ
ꙮ| Ꚙ| Ꚛ| | | | П̓| П̀
П́| Ҧ| П̧| П̑| Ҁ| Ԛ̆| | Р́
Р̀| Р̃| | Ԗ| С̀| С̈| Ԍ| Ҫ̓
| Т̓| Т̀| Ԏ| Т̑| Ꚋ| Т̧| Ꚍ
Ꚍ̆| | | | Ѹ| Ꙋ| | У̇
У̨| ꙋ́| Ф̑| Ф̓| Х́| Х̀| Х̆| Х̇
Х̧| Х̾| Х̓| | һ̱| Ѡ| Ꙍ| Ѽ
Ѿ| Ꙡ| Ц̀| Ц́| Ц̓| | Ꚏ| Ꚏ̆
| | Ꚑ| Ч́| Ч̀| Ч̆| Ч̑| Ч̓
| | Ԭ| Ꚓ| Ꚇ| Ꚇ̆| Ҽ̆| Ш̀
Ш̆| Ш̑| Щ̆| Ꚗ| Ꚗ̆| | Ъ̄| Ъ̈
Ъ̈̄| Ꙑ| Ы̂| Ы̃| | Ѣ́| Ѣ̈| Ѣ̆
Ꙓ| Э̨| Э̂| Ꙕ| Ю̂| | | Ꙗ
Я̈| Я̂| Я̨| Ԙ| Ѥ| Ѧ| Ꙙ| Ѫ
Ꙛ| Ѩ| Ꙝ| Ѭ| Ѯ| Ѱ| Ѳ| Ѵ
Ѷ| Ꙟ| | | | | |

* List of Cyrillic letters
* List of Cyrillic multigraphs

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Yu, from the Alphabet Book оf the Red Army Soldier (1921)

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

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

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Sometimes, it is referred to as "Iotated O" 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 Russian depends also on the succeeding sound because of allophony. 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

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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, Ꙗ, Ѩ and Ѭ, the ancient ligature (or letter) Uk ⟨оѵ⟩/⟨оу⟩ possibly had its iotated form ⟨іоѵ⟩/⟨іоу⟩.

Also, the iotated big Yus ⟨Ѭ⟩ merged itself to ⟨ю⟩ in East Slavic languages.

## Related letters and other similar characters

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* У у : Cyrillic letter U
* Ү ү : Cyrillic letter Ue
* Û û : Latin letter U with circumflex
* Ū ū : Latin letter U with macron
* Ǔ ǔ : Latin letter U with caron

## Computing codes

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Character information  Preview | Ю | ю | Ꙕ | ꙕ

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Unicode name  | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YU  | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YU  | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER REVERSED YU  | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER REVERSED YU
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex
Unicode | 1070 | U+042E | 1102 | U+044E | 42580 | U+A654 | 42581 | U+A655
UTF-8 | 208 174 | D0 AE | 209 142 | D1 8E | 234 153 148 | EA 99 94 | 234 153 149 | EA 99 95
Numeric character reference | &#1070; | &#x42E; | &#1102; | &#x44E; | &#42580; | &#xA654; | &#42581; | &#xA655;
Named character reference | &YUcy; | &yucy; |  |
KOI8-R and KOI8-U | 224 | E0 | 192 | C0 |  |  |  |
Code page 855 | 157 | 9D | 156 | 9C |  |  |  |
Windows-1251 | 222 | DE | 254 | FE |  |  |  |
ISO-8859-5 | 206 | CE | 238 | EE |  |  |  |
Macintosh Cyrillic | 158 | 9E | 254 | FE |  |  |  |

## References

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1. ^ Yefim Karskiy (1979) [First published 1928]. Славянская кирилловская палеография [The Slavic Cyrillic paleography] (in Russian) (2nd, facsimile ed.). Nauka. pp. 205–206.

## External links

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* The dictionary definition of Ю at Wiktionary
* The dictionary definition of ю at Wiktionary

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