Yu (Cyrillic)

Sometimes, it is referred to as "Iotated U" because it is a so-called iotated vowel, pronounced in isolation as , like the pronunciation of in "human". After a consonant, no distinct sound is pronounced, but the consonant is softened. The exact pronunciation of the vowel sound of in Slavic languages depends also on the succeeding sound. Before a soft consonant, it is , 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 , as in "pool". ==History==

Apart from the form I-O, in early Slavonic manuscripts the letter appears also in a mirrored form O-I ().{{cite book |author = Yefim Karskiy |author-link = Yefim Karskiy |trans-title=The Slavic Cyrillic paleography |script-title=ru:Славянская кирилловская палеография |language= Russian |edition = 2nd, facsimile |publisher = Nauka |year = 1979 |orig-year = First published 1928 |pages = 158 There is another possible origin to the modern form. By the analogy to several 'iotated' letters Ѥ, Ꙗ, Ѩ and Ѭ; the iotated version of the archaic Cyrillic digraph (or letter) Uk / could have possibly been derived into the modern letter through the omission of the latter glyph of the trigraphs, similar to how the modern letter У was derived. The iotated big Yus  merged itself to in East Slavic languages. is the Voice Quality Symbol for tracheo-œsophageal speech (the symbol attempts to capture iconically the dual nature of the airstream). ==Related letters and other similar characters==

• 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==