U with double acute (Cyrillic)
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U with double acute is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

, derived from the Cyrillic letter U
U (Cyrillic)
U is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It commonly represents the close back rounded vowel , somewhat like the pronunciation of ⟨oo⟩ in "boot"...

 (У у ).

U with double acute is used in the alphabet of the Chuvash language
Chuvash language
Chuvash is a Turkic language spoken in central Russia, primarily in the Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas. It is the only surviving member of the Oghur branch of Turkic languages....

, where it represents the close front rounded vowel
Close front rounded vowel
The close front rounded vowel, or high front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is y...

 /y/, the pronunciation of the Latin letter U with umlaut
Ü
Ü, or ü, is a character which can be either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter U with an umlaut or a diaeresis...

 (Ü ü) in German. It is placed between ⟨У⟩ and ⟨Ф⟩ in the Chuvash alphabet.

Computing codes

character
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER
U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER
U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
character encoding decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode
Unicode
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...

 
1266 04F2 1267 04F3
UTF-8
UTF-8
UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks...

 
211 178 D3 B2 211 179 D3 B3
Numeric character reference
Numeric character reference
A numeric character reference is a common markup construct used in SGML and other SGML-related markup languages such as HTML and XML. It consists of a short sequence of characters that, in turn, represent a single character from the Universal Character Set of Unicode...

 
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See also

: Cyrillic letter U with diaeresis
U with diaeresis (Cyrillic)
U with diaeresis is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, derived from the Cyrillic letter U .U with diaeresis is used in the alphabets of the Altai, Khakass, Khanty and Mari languages, where it represents the close front rounded vowel , the pronunciation of the Latin letter U with umlaut in...

 : Cyrillic letter Ue
Ue (Cyrillic)
Ue or Straight U is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It is a form of the Cyrillic letter U with a vertical, rather than diagonal, center line...

  • Ű ű : Latin letter U with double acute
    U
    U is the twenty-first letter and a vowel in the basic modern Latin alphabet.-History:The letter U ultimately comes from the Semitic letter Waw by way of the letter Y. See the letter Y for details....

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