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Kazakh Short U

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Straight U with stroke
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic
Sound values[ʊ]
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Collage of two street signs in Kazakh, both featuring the letter Ұ

Straight U with stroke (Ұ ұ; italics: Ұ ұ), is a letter of the Cyrillic script.[1] In Unicode, this letter is called "Straight U with stroke".[1] Its form is the Cyrillic letter Ue (Ү ү Ү ү) with a horizontal stroke through it.

Usage

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Kazakh Short U is used only in the alphabet of the Kazakh language,[1] where it represents the near-close near-back rounded vowel /ʊ/, like the pronunciation of the ⟨oo⟩ in "book".[2] In other circumstances, it is used as a replacement for the former letter[clarification needed] to represent the close front rounded vowel /y/ in situations where it would be easily confused with Cyrillic У у.[citation needed] It is romanized as ⟨ū⟩ in Kazakh (2021 reform).

Unicode

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Character information
Preview Ұ ұ
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER
STRAIGHT U WITH STROKE
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER
STRAIGHT U WITH STROKE
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 1200 U+04B0 1201 U+04B1
UTF-8 210 176 D2 B0 210 177 D2 B1
Numeric character reference Ұ Ұ ұ ұ
KZ-1048 162 A2 163 A3
Mac OS Turkic Cyrillic 173 AD 214 D6
KOI8-C/KOI8-CA 150 96 134 86
Code page 58152 246 F6 247 F7

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0. 2010. p. 42. Retrieved 2011-05-17.
  2. ^ Wagner, John Doyle; Dotton, Zura. A Grammar of Kazakh (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on Mar 26, 2023.