U with macron (Cyrillic)

Not to be confused with the Latin letter Ȳ.

U with macron (Ӯ ӯ; italics: Ӯ ӯ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script,^[1] derived from the Cyrillic letter U (У у У у).

U with macron
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic

Usage

U with macron is used in the alphabet of the Tajik language, where it represents the close-mid central rounded vowel, /ɵ/. Accordingly, although the letter shape is a modification of ⟨У⟩, the only aspect of the sound shared with /u/ is that both are relatively close, rounded vowels.

In 1937, it was also proposed for use in the Karelian Cyrillic alphabet to represent /y/, but was not adopted.

U with macron is used to represent long /u/ in Kildin Sami and Mansi, two Uralic languages spoken on the Kola peninsula (Kildin) and Western Siberia (Mansi). In these languages, length is distinctive, and the macron is used to mark the long version of all the vowels.

U with macron is also used in the Aleut language (Bering dialect).^[2] It is the thirty-sixth letter of the modern Aleut alphabet.

U with macron is also used in Carpatho-Rusyn, the only Slavic language to do so. Its sound is close to /y/, or in some dialects, /u/.^[3][4]

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Ӯ		ӯ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER U WITH MACRON		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER U WITH MACRON
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1262	U+04EE	1263	U+04EF
UTF-8	211 174	D3 AE	211 175	D3 AF
Numeric character reference	Ӯ	Ӯ	ӯ	ӯ

See also

• U u : Latin letter U
• Ū ū : Latin letter U with macron - a Latvian, Latgalian, Lithuanian, Livonian, and Samogitian letter
• Y y : Latin letter Y
• Ȳ ȳ : Latin letter Y with macron - a similar looking letter
• Ў ў : Cyrillic letter Short U
• Ӱ ӱ : Cyrillic letter U with diaeresis
• Ӳ ӳ : Cyrillic letter U with double acute
• Ү ү : Cyrillic letter straight U
• Ұ ұ : Cyrillic letter Straight U with stroke
• Cyrillic characters in Unicode