Ue or Straight U 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...

. It is a form of 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 У у) with a vertical, rather than diagonal, center line. Though the letter resembles

Homoglyph

In typography, a homoglyph is one of two or more characters, or glyphs, with shapes that either appear identical or cannot be differentiated by quick visual inspection. This designation is also applied to sequences of characters sharing these properties....

 the Latin letter Y

Y

Y is the twenty-fifth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet and represents either a vowel or a consonant in English.-Name:In Latin, Y was named Y Graeca "Greek Y". This was pronounced as I Graeca "Greek I", since Latin speakers had trouble pronouncing , which was not a native sound...

 (Y y) in its uppercase form, the two should not be confused.

Ue is used the alphabets of the Bashkir

Bashkir language

The Bashkir language is a Turkic language, and is the language of the Bashkirs. It is co-official with Russian in the Republic of Bashkortostan.-Speakers:...

, Buryat

Buryat language

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, Kalmyk

Kalmyk language

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, Kazakh

Kazakh language

Kazakh is a Turkic language which belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages, closely related to Nogai and Karakalpak....

, Kyrgyz

Kyrgyz language

Kyrgyz or Kirgiz, also Kirghiz, Kyrghiz, Qyrghiz is a Turkic language and, together with Russian, an official language of Kyrgyzstan...

, Mongolian

Mongolian language

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, Tatar

Tatar language

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 and other languages. 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.

Computing codes

character
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER STRAIGHT U		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER STRAIGHT U
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...	1198	04AE	1199	04AF
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...	210 174	D2 AE	210 175	D2 AF
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...	Ү	Ү	ү	ү

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 U with double acute

U with double acute (Cyrillic)

U with double acute is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, derived from the Cyrillic letter U .U with double acute is used in the alphabet of the Chuvash language, where it represents the close front rounded vowel , the pronunciation of the Latin letter U with umlaut in German...

• Cyrillic characters in Unicode
  Cyrillic characters in Unicode
  The Cyrillic script is encoded in four blocks in Unicode, all in BMP:* Cyrillic: , 256 characters* Cyrillic Supplement: , 48 characters* Cyrillic Extended-A: , 32 characters* Cyrillic Extended-B: , 96 characters...