Ў
The Ў ( lower case ў , Belarus. У нескладовае (u neskladowaje) = short Ŭ ) is the twenty-second letter of the Belarusian alphabet, consisting of an У with breve . Its equivalent in the Belarusian Latin alphabet is Ŭ ŭ . Phonetically, it indicates a consonant u - comparable to the Polish ł or the w in English . Etymologically, it is in positions where there is v or l in other Slavic languages .
In the Uzbek language this sign was used until the introduction of the Latin alphabet in the 1990s as well, where there is the unrounded half-closed back vowel / ɤ / represented. In Latin script , the ў was replaced by oʻ (example: Ўзбекистон → Oʻzbekiston). Also in use was ў in karakalpakischen language , where the labialized voiced velar approximant / w / represented and in the Latin script by w is replaced.
Examples
| Belarusian-Cyrillic: | паабяца ў | даляра ў |
| Belarusian-Latin: | paabiaca ŭ | dalara ŭ |
| Russian: | пообеща л | долларо в |
| Russian (transliterated): | poobešča l | dollaro v |
| German (translated): | promised | dollar |
Character encoding
| default | Uppercase Ў | Minuscule ў | |
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| Unicode | Codepoint | U + 040E | U + 045E |
| Surname | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHORT U | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT U | |
| UTF-8 | D0 8E | D1 9E | |
| XML / XHTML | decimal |
Ў
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ў
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| hexadecimal |
Ў
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ў
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