U (Cyrillic)

' 1904 alphabet book. It shows Ulitsa (street) and uraganʺ (hurricane). training mine, distinguishable from the live version by the presence of the letter У (short for учебный, uchebnyy, "for training"). Historically, Cyrillic U evolved as a specifically East Slavic short form of the digraph used in ancient Slavic texts to represent . The digraph was itself a direct loan from the Greek alphabet, where the combination (omicron-upsilon) was also used to represent . Later, the o was removed, leaving the modern upsilon-only form. Consequently, the form of the letter is derived from Greek upsilon , which was parallelly also taken over into the Cyrillic alphabet in another form, as Izhitsa . (The letter Izhitsa was removed from the Russian alphabet in the orthography reform of 1917/19.) It is normally romanised as "u", but in Kazakh, it is romanised as "w". In the Cyrillic numeral system, the Cyrillic letter U had a value of 400. ==In other languages==

In Tuvan the Cyrillic letter can be written as a double vowel. In certain languages, U is used to mark labialization. ==Related letters and other similar characters==

(uppercase): The grapheme on the left is clearly a Cyrillic U, the one in the middle may represent both letters, the one on the right is clearly a Greek or Latin Y.|class=skin-invert-image • Υ υ : Greek letter Upsilon • U u : Latin letter U • Ú ú : Latin letter Ú • Y y : Latin letter Y • Ў ў : Cyrillic letter Short U, used in Belarusian, Dungan, Siberian Eskimo (Yuit), Uzbek • Ӯ ӯ : Cyrillic letter U with macron, used in Tajik and Carpatho-Rusyn • Ӱ ӱ : Cyrillic letter U with diaeresis, used in Altai (Oyrot), Khakas, Gagauz, Khanty, Mari • Ӳ ӳ : Cyrillic letter U with double acute, used in Chuvash • Ү ү : Cyrillic letter straight U, used in Mongolian, Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir, Dungan and other languages • Ұ ұ : Cyrillic letter Straight U with stroke, used in Kazakh • Ꭹ Ꮍ : The syllables gi and mu of the Cherokee syllabary; Ꭹ (gi) notably appearing in the Cherokee self-designation ᏣᎳᎩ (Tsalagi) • ע: The Hebrew letter Ayin • У̊: Cyrillic letter U with ring, used in Shugnhi orthography. ==Computing codes==