U with ring above (Cyrillic)

Not to be confused with Y̊.

U with ring above (У̊ у̊) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, used in the Shughni language and formerly in 19th-century Lithuanian Cyrillic.

U with ring above
У̊ у̊
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	/ɵ~ʊː/
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Uses

The 1867 Lithuanian Cyrillic alphabet, with this letter

It is the 32nd letter of the Shughni alphabet between ӯ and Ф, representing /ɵ~ʊː/. Sometimes the digraph уо is used instead.^[1]

U with ring above was also used in Lithuanian writing, notably in the orthography of Jonas Juška,^[2] after the defeat in the January Uprising of 1863 and the following ban on Latin writing in official documents from 1864 to 1904.

Computing codes

This letter is not a precomposed character. It needs to be composed using U+0423 У CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER U+U+030A ◌̊ COMBINING RING ABOVE and U+0443 у CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER U+U+030A ◌̊ COMBINING RING ABOVE.

Character information

Preview	У		у		̊
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER U		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER U		COMBINING RING ABOVE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1059	U+0423	1091	U+0443	778	U+030A
UTF-8	208 163	D0 A3	209 131	D1 83	204 138	CC 8A
Numeric character reference	У	У	у	у	̊	̊
Named character reference	У		у

See also

• Ů ů : Latin letter U with ring - a Czech letter