{{short description|Cyrillic letter}} {{hatnote group|{{Redirect|Ü (Cyrillic)|the Cyrillic U with diaeresis|U with diaeresis (Cyrillic)}} {{distinguish|text=the Cyrllic letter У, Latin letters Y or y}} or the }} {{Infobox grapheme |script = Cyrillic |type = Alphabet |typedesc = ic |name = Ue |letter = Ү ү |image = Cyrillic letter Ue.svg|imageclass=skin-invert |imagealt = |phonemes = [{{IPA link|y}}], [{{IPA link|ʏ}}], [{{IPA link|u}}] |number = |fam1 = Υ υ }}

'''Ue''' or '''Straight U''' (Ү&nbsp;ү; italics: <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">''Ү&nbsp;ү''</span>) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.<ref name=Unicode/> It is a form of the Cyrillic letter U (У&nbsp;у&nbsp;<span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">''У&nbsp;у''</span>) with a vertical, rather than diagonal, center line. Whereas a standard Cyrillic U resembles a lowercase Latin y, Ue instead uses the shape of a capital Latin Y, with each letter set higher or lower to establish its case. The lower case resembles the lower case of the Greek letter gamma.

Ue is in used the alphabets of the Tuvan, Bashkir, Buryat, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Sakha, Turkmen, Tatar, Azerbajiani and other languages. It commonly represents the front rounded vowels {{IPA|/y/}} and {{IPA|/ʏ/}} in most Turkic languages, except in Mongolian where it represents {{IPA|/u/}}.

In Tuvan and Kyrgyz the Cyrillic letter can be written as a double vowel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.omniglot.com/writing/tuvan.php|title=Tuvan language, alphabet and pronunciation|work=omniglot.com|access-date=14 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jWwqAAAAQBAJ|title=Compendium of the World's Languages|first1=George L.|last1=Campbell|first2=Gareth|last2=King|date=24 July 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781136258459|access-date=14 June 2016|via=Google Books}}</ref>

==Computing codes==

{{charmap |04AE|name1=Cyrillic Capital Letter<br />Straight U |04AF|name2=Cyrillic Small Letter<br />Straight U }}

==See also== *Ü ü : Latin letter U with diaeresis, used in the Azerbaijani, Estonian, German, Hungarian, Turkish, and Turkmen languages. *Ư ư : Latin letter U with horn, used in Vietnamese alphabet *Y y : Latin letter Y *У у : Cyrillic letter U *Ӱ ӱ : Cyrillic letter U with diaeresis *Ӳ ӳ : Cyrillic letter U with double acute *Ұ ұ : Cyrillic letter straight U with stroke (Kazakh mid U) *Γ γ : Greek letter Gamma *Cyrillic characters in Unicode

==References== <references> <ref name=Unicode>{{cite web |url=http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf |title=Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF |work=The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0 |year=2010 |page=42 |access-date=2011-05-16}}</ref> </references>

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