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Also known as Ю, ю, Cyrillic letter yu, yu (Cyrillic)
Cyrillic letter “yu”
The letter "yu" (Ю/ю) is a character in the Cyrillic alphabet used to write Russian and several other Slavic languages. It represents a sound similar to the "u" in the English word "use" and is one of the standard letters needed to properly spell and pronounce words in these languages.
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Yu, from the Alphabet Book оf the Red Army Soldier (1921) Yu or Ju (Ю ю; italics: Ю ю or Ю ю; italics: Ю ю) is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in East Slavic and Bulgarian alphabets.
In English, Yu is commonly romanized as ⟨yu⟩ or ⟨ju⟩. In turn, ⟨ю⟩ is used, where available, in transcriptions of English letter ⟨u⟩ (in open syllables), and also of the ⟨ew⟩ digraph. The sound [y], like ⟨u⟩ in French and ⟨ü⟩ in German, may also be approximated by the letter ⟨ю⟩.
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