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Short U (Ў ў; italics: Ў ў) or U with breve is a letter of the Cyrillic script. The only Slavic language using the letter in its orthography is Belarusian , but it is also used as a phonetic symbol in some Russian and Ukrainian dictionaries. [ 1 ]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 January 2025. See also: List of Cyrillic multigraphs Main articles: Cyrillic script, Cyrillic alphabets, and Early Cyrillic alphabet This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. This is a list of letters of the ...
Short U (Ў ў) is the letter У with a breve and represents /w/, or like the u part of the diphthong in loud. The use of the breve to indicate a semivowel is analogous to the Short I (Й). A combination of Sh and Ch (ШЧ шч) is used where those familiar only with Russian and or Ukrainian would expect Shcha (Щ щ). Yery (Ы ы) represents /ɨ/.
і — Identical in pronunciation to и , it was used exclusively immediately before other vowels and the й ("Short I") (for example, патріархъ [pətrʲɪˈarx], 'patriarch') and in the word міръ [mʲir] ('world') and its derivatives, to distinguish it from the word миръ [mʲir] ('peace') (the two words are actually ...
Contrastive use of Cyrillic kratka (for consonant [j]) and Latin breve (for short vowel [ĭ]) above и in Russian-Nenets dictionary. In Emilian, ĕ ŏ are used to represent [ɛ, ɔ] in dialects where also long [ɛː, ɔː] occur. In Esperanto, u with breve (ŭ) represents a non-syllabic u in diphthongs /u̯/, analogous to Belarusian ў.
A PFM-1 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 оу used in ancient Slavic texts to represent /u/ .
Ўў – this is a short non-syllable "u", quite similar to "w" in "low." The following seems to indicate that it is a non-syllabic [u] and also an allophone of [v]: If the letter у occurs after a vowel, even if the vowel ends the previous word, it is written as an ў. This letter is pronounced like the English 'w'.
u+045e ў cyrillic small letter short u (ў) u+045f џ cyrillic small letter dzhe (џ) u+0460 Ѡ cyrillic capital letter omega; u+0461 ѡ cyrillic small letter omega; u+0462 Ѣ cyrillic capital letter yat; u+0463 ѣ cyrillic small letter yat; u+0464 Ѥ cyrillic capital letter iotified e; u+0465 ѥ cyrillic small letter iotified e