Ue (Mongolic)

Ue is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages.^{[1]: 549–551}

Mongolian language

Main articles: Mongolian script, Mongolian writing systems, and Mongolian language

Ue
The Mongolian script
Mongolian vowels
ᠠ a ᠡ e ᠢ i ᠣ o ᠤ u ᠥ ö ᠦ ü ᠧ (ē)
Mongolian consonants
ᠨ n ᠩ ng ᠪ b ᠫ (p) ᠬ q/k ᠭ ɣ/g ᠮ m ᠯ l ᠰ s ᠱ š ᠲ t ᠳ d ᠴ č ᠵ ǰ ᠶ y ᠷ r ᠸ (w)
Mongolian script multigraphs
Galik alphabet
v t e

Letter[2]: 17, 20 [3]: 546
ü	Transliteration[note 1]
ᠦ [note 2]	Alone
ᠦ‍	Initial
‍ᠦ᠋‍	Medial (word-initial syllable)
‍ᠦ‍	Medial (subsequent syllables)
‍ᠦ	Final

Ligatures[2]: 22–23, 24–25 [3]: 546
bü	pü	kü, gü	Transliteration
ᠪᠦ	ᠫᠦ	ᠭᠦ⟨?⟩ ⟨w/o tail⟩ [note 3]	Alone
		ᠭᠦ᠋⟨?⟩ ⟨w/ tail⟩
ᠪᠦ‍	ᠫᠦ‍	ᠭᠦ‍	Initial
‍ᠪᠦ‍	‍ᠫᠦ‍	‍ᠭᠦ‍	Medial
‍ᠪᠦ	‍ᠫᠦ	‍ᠭᠦ	Final

Separated suffixes[note 4]
‑ü(...)	‑ü	‑ün	‑ügei	‑üd	Transliteration
	ᠦ⟨?⟩	—	—	—	Whole
	—	ᠦᠨ⟨?⟩		ᠦᠳ⟨?⟩
		—	ᠦᠭᠡᠢ⟨?⟩	—

• Transcribes Chakhar /u/;^[9][10] Khalkha /u/, /ə/, and /∅/.^{[11]: 40–42} Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter ү.^[12][4]
• Indistinguishable from ö, except where ü can be inferred from its context:
  • ü is found in medial or final syllables if e/i/ü are found syllable-initially.^{[2]: 20 [7]: 9–10}
• ‍ᠦ᠋ = an alternative final form; also used in loanwords.^[13]: 39 Additionally used in native and modern Mongolian ᠰᠦ᠋^⟨?⟩ sü 'milk' (Classical Mongolian ᠰᠦ^⟨?⟩ ⟨⟩ sü or ᠰᠦᠨ sün).^{[6]: 741, 744 [13]: 39}
• The syllable-initial medial form ‍ᠦ᠋‍ is also used in non-initial syllables in proper name compounds,^[13]: 44 as well as in loanwords.^{[citation needed]}
• ‍ᠦ᠌‍ = medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound.^[13]: 44
• Derived from Old Uyghur waw (𐽳), followed by a yodh (𐽶) in word-initial syllables, and preceded by an aleph (𐽰) for isolate and initial forms.^{[3]: 539–540, 545–546 [14]: 111, 113 [13]: 35}
• Produced with U using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.^[15]
• In the Mongolian Unicode block, ü comes after ö and before ē.

Clear Script

Main article: Clear Script

Xibe language

Main article: Xibe language § Alphabet

Manchu language

Main article: Manchu alphabet

Notes

1. Scholarly transliteration.^[4]
2. As in ᠡᠭᠦᠦ/ᠦ egüü/ü (Khalkha: үү üü) 'wart; excrescence'.^{[6]: 303, 995}
3. As in the strengthening (emphatic) ᠭᠦ^⟨?⟩ kü (Khalkha: хүү khüü) particle,^{[6]: 494 [7]: 46} or ᠬᠥ^⟨?⟩/ᠬᠥᠭᠡ kö/köge (Khalkha: хөө khöö) 'soot; obstacle, hindrance; trouble', or 'ring of mail'.^{[6]: 475, 478}
4. Separated suffixes starting with, or made up by the letter ü include:  ᠦ^⟨?⟩ ‑ü or  ᠦᠨ^⟨?⟩ ‑ün (genitive),  ᠦᠭᠡᠢ^⟨?⟩ ‑ügei (negation), and  ᠦᠳ^⟨?⟩ ‑üd (plural).^[8]