thumb|Yery, from Karion Istomin's 1694 [[alphabet book]] Yeru or Eru (Ы ы; italics: Ы ы or Ы ы; italics: Ы ы), usually called Y in modern Russian or Yery or Ery historically and in modern Church Slavonic, is a letter in the Cyrillic script. It represents the close central unrounded vowel (more rear or upper than i) after non-palatalised (hard) consonants in the Belarusian and Russian alphabets.
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Ы/ы (called "Y" in modern Russian) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet that represents a vowel sound similar to "i" but pronounced further back in the mouth, and it appears in Russian and Belarusian after hard consonants. This letter is important because it marks a key distinction in these languages between how consonants are pronounced—whether they are "hard" or "soft"—which affects the meaning of words.
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Key facts
- Grapheme.script
- Cyrillic
- Grapheme.type
- Alphabet
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic
- Grapheme.name
- Yery
- Grapheme.image
- Cyrillic letter Yery - uppercase and lowercase.svg
- Grapheme.imageclass
- skin-invert-image
- Grapheme.phonemes
- [][][][]
- Grapheme.equivalents
- Y y
- Grapheme.letter
- Ы ы
- Grapheme.language
- Old Church Slavonic
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+042B, U+044B, U+A650, U+A651
- Grapheme.variations
- Ꙑ ꙑ
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11 sectionsContents
- Origin
- Usage
- In Russian
- In Ukrainian
- In Rusyn
- In Turkic languages
- In Mongolian
- Related letters and other similar characters
- Computing codes
- References
- External links
thumb|Yery, from Karion Istomin's 1694 [[alphabet book]] Yeru or Eru (Ы ы; italics: Ы ы or Ы ы; italics: Ы ы), usually called Y in modern Russian or Yery or Ery historically and in modern Church Slavonic, is a letter in the Cyrillic script. It represents the close central unrounded vowel (more rear or upper than i) after non-palatalised (hard) consonants in the Belarusian and Russian alphabets.
The letter is usually romanised , such that the family name is usually written Krylov in English and most other West European languages. That spelling matches the Latin alphabet used for Polish, whose letter represents the same sound. Similarly, is used for in the cyrillisation of Polish, such that the name appears as in Russian. Note, however, that the letter also appears in romanisation of other Russian letters both in isolation (such as , ) and as part of digraphs (such as , ).