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Ы/ы

Also known as ЬI, ы, 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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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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Image: Cirila-ы-minuskla.svg

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Commons category: Cyrillic Yeru
Unicode character: ы

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Origin
Usage
In Russian
In Ukrainian
In Rusyn
In Turkic languages
In Mongolian
Related letters and other similar characters
Computing codes
References
External links

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 , ).