U+04AE "Ү" Cyrillic Capital Letter Straight U Unicode Character
U+04AE "Ү" Cyrillic Capital Letter Straight U is a glyph used in several Cyrillic-based alphabets to represent a high back unrounded vowel, typically pronounced like the 'u' in the English word "put" but without lip rounding. It is distinct from the standard Cyrillic letter У, which has a curved form, as Ү is designed with straight vertical lines and a straight horizontal stroke or a single vertical bar depending on the font. This letter is most commonly found in the alphabets of Turkic languages like Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, and Bashkir, where it corresponds to the Latin letter "Ü" or "U" with a dieresis in transliteration. Its inclusion in Unicode helps facilitate accurate digital representation and communication for these languages across various software and platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04AE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Straight U |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ү |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ү |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04AE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04ae |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ү" U+04AF Cyrillic Small Letter Straight U |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ү" U+04AF Cyrillic Small Letter Straight U |
| Simple Case Folding | "ү" U+04AF Cyrillic Small Letter Straight U |
| Case Folding | "ү" U+04AF Cyrillic Small Letter Straight U |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ү" U+04AF Cyrillic Small Letter Straight U |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ү" U+04AF Cyrillic Small Letter Straight U |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |