Yu (Cyrillic)
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| Cyrillic letter Yu | ||||||
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| Unicode (hex) | ||||||
| majuscule: U+042E | ||||||
| minuscule: U+044E | ||||||
| Cyrillic alphabet | ||||||
| А | Б | В | Г | Ґ | Д | Ѓ |
| Ђ | Е | Ѐ | Ё | Є | Ж | З |
| Ѕ | И | Ѝ | І | Ї | Й | Ј |
| К | Л | Љ | М | Н | Њ | О |
| П | Р | С | Т | Ћ | Ќ | У |
| Ў | Ф | Х | Ц | Ч | Џ | Ш |
| Щ | Ъ | Ы | Ь | Э | Ю | Я |
| Non-Slavic letters | ||||||
| Ӑ | Ӓ | Ә | Ӛ | Ӕ | Ғ | Ӷ |
| Ҕ | Ӗ | Ҽ | Ҿ | Ӂ | Җ | Ӝ |
| Ҙ | Ӟ | Ӡ | Ӥ | Ӣ | Ӏ | Ҋ |
| Қ | Ҟ | Ҡ | Ӄ | Ҝ | Ӆ | Ӎ |
| Ҥ | Ң | Ӊ | Ӈ | Ӧ | Ө | Ӫ |
| Ҩ | Ҧ | Ҏ | Ҫ | Ҭ | Ӳ | Ӱ |
| Ӯ | Ү | Ұ | Ҳ | Һ | Ҵ | Ӵ |
| Ҷ | Ӌ | Ҹ | Ӹ | Ҍ | Ӭ | |
| Archaic letters | ||||||
| Ҁ | Ѹ | Ѡ | Ѿ | Ѻ | Ѣ | ІА |
| Ѥ | Ѧ | Ѫ | Ѩ | Ѭ | Ѯ | Ѱ |
| Ѳ | Ѵ | Ѷ | Ꙟ | |||
| List of Cyrillic letters | ||||||
Yu (Ю, ю) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing either the combination /ju/ (a so-called iotated vowel) or /u/ after a palatalized consonant.
Apart from the form I-O, in early Slavonic manuscripts the letter appears also in a mirrored form O-I. It is this form that is probably original, precisely displaying the Greek combination omicron-iota (οι). At the time the Greek alphabet was adapted to the Slavonic language (giving rise to the Cyrillic alphabet), this denoted Close front rounded vowel /y/ in educated Greek speech. This digraphic representation of /y/ was so basic for speakers of Greek that the simple letter upsilon (υ) representing the same sound came to be called υ ψιλόν (y psilon) "simple" υ in contrast to "complex" οι.
Probably in analogy to the 'iotated' letters Ѥ, ІА, Ѩ and Ѭ, which fulfilled similar functions in Slavonic, this OI ligature was soon mirrored to the modern form ю.[citation needed]
