Ы
Also known as ЬI, yeru (Cyrillic), yery (Cyrillic), yerý (Cyrillic), eru (Cyrillic), hard i (Cyrillic)
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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