For the Ukrainian alphabet

Ukrainian alphabet

The Ukrainian alphabet is the set of letters used to write Ukrainian, the official language of Ukraine. It is one of the national variations of the Cyrillic script....

 letter Ye (Є є), see Ukrainian Ye

Ukrainian Ye

Ukrainian Ye is a character of the Cyrillic script. It is considered as an individual letter of modern Ukrainian alphabet and as a variant form of Ye in modern Church Slavonic language...

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Ye (Е е; italics: Е е) 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...

. In some languages this letter is called E.

It commonly represents the vowel /e/ or /ɛ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨e⟩ in "yes".

Ye is romanized using the Latin letter E

E

E is the fifth letter and a vowel in the basic modern Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used letter in the Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Latin, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish languages.-History:...

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It was derived from the Greek letter Epsilon

Epsilon

Epsilon is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding phonetically to a close-mid front unrounded vowel . In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 5. It was derived from the Phoenician letter He...

 (Ε ε).

Belarusian and Russian

• At the beginning of a word or after a vowel, Ye represents the combination /je/ or /jɛ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨ye⟩ in "yes".
• Following a consonant, Ye indicates that the consonant is palatalized, and represents the vowel /e/ or /ɛ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨e⟩ in "yes".

For further information see Russian phonology

Russian phonology

This article discusses the phonological system of standard Russian based on the Moscow dialect . For discussion of other dialects, see Russian dialects...

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Ukrainian uses the letter Ukrainian Ye

Ukrainian Ye

Ukrainian Ye is a character of the Cyrillic script. It is considered as an individual letter of modern Ukrainian alphabet and as a variant form of Ye in modern Church Slavonic language...

 (Є є) in this way.

Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, and Ukrainian

This letter is called E, and represents the vowel /e/ or /ɛ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨e⟩ in the word "yes".

Related letters and other similar characters

• Ε ε : Greek letter Epsilon
• E e : Latin letter E
  E
  E is the fifth letter and a vowel in the basic modern Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used letter in the Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Latin, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish languages.-History:...
  
   : Latin letter Epsilon
• Ё ё : Cyrillic letter Yo
  Yo (Cyrillic)
  Yo is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. In Unicode, the letter ⟨Ё⟩ is named CYRILLIC CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER IO.It commonly represents the sounds , like the pronunciation of ⟨Yo⟩ in "York"....
  
  
• Є є : Cyrillic letter Ukrainian Ye
  Ukrainian Ye
  Ukrainian Ye is a character of the Cyrillic script. It is considered as an individual letter of modern Ukrainian alphabet and as a variant form of Ye in modern Church Slavonic language...
  
   : Cyrillic letter Reversed Ze
  Reversed Ze
  Reversed Ze is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. Its form is a reversed Cyrillic letter Ze . It resembles the Latin letter epsilon and the Greek letter Epsilon , but has different origins...
  
  
• Э э : Cyrillic letter E
  E (Cyrillic)
  E , also known as Backwards E from , E oborotnoye, is a letter found amongst Slavonic languages only in Russian and Belarusian, representing the sounds and...
  
  

Computing codes

character	Е		е
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IE
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...	1045	0415	1077	0435
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...	208 149	D0 95	208 181	D0 B5
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...	Е	Е	е	е
KOI8-R KOI8-R KOI8-R is an 8-bit character encoding, designed to cover Russian, which uses the Cyrillic alphabet. It also happens to cover Bulgarian, but is not used since CP1251 is accepted. A derivative encoding is KOI8-U, which adds Ukrainian characters...  and KOI8-U KOI8-U KOI8-U is an 8-bit character encoding, designed to cover Ukrainian, which uses the Cyrillic alphabet. It is based on KOI8-R, which covers Russian and Bulgarian, but replaces eight graphic characters with four Ukrainian letters Ґ, Є, І, and Ї in both upper case and lower case.In Microsoft Windows,...	229	E5	197	C5
Code page 855 Code page 855 Code page 855 is a code page used under MS-DOS to write Cyrillic script. This code page is not used much.-Code page layout:...	169	A9	168	A8
Windows-1251 Windows-1251 Windows-1251 is a popular 8-bit character encoding, designed to cover languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet such as Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic and other languages...	197	C5	229	E5
ISO-8859-5	181	B5	213	D5
Macintosh Cyrillic	133	85	229	E5