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See also: Ы, ꙑ, -ы, Appendix:Variations of "i", and Appendix:Variations of "y"

1 Translingual
- 1.1 Letter
- 1.2 Letter
- 1.3 Gallery
2 Abaza
- 2.1 Letter
- 2.2 See also
3 Abkhaz
- 3.1 Letter
- 3.2 See also
4 Adyghe
- 4.1 Letter
- 4.2 See also
5 Aghul
- 5.1 Letter
- 5.2 See also
6 Alutor
- 6.1 Pronunciation
- 6.2 Letter
- 6.3 See also
7 Archi
- 7.1 Letter
- 7.2 See also
8 Avar
- 8.1 Letter
- 8.2 See also
9 Azerbaijani
- 9.1 Letter
- 9.2 See also
10 Bashkir
- 10.1 Pronunciation
- 10.2 Letter
- 10.3 See also
11 Belarusian
- 11.1 Pronunciation
- 11.2 Letter
- 11.3 See also
12 Buryat
- 12.1 Letter
- 12.2 See also
13 Chechen
- 13.1 Letter
- 13.2 See also
14 Chukchi
- 14.1 Letter
- 14.2 See also
15 Chuvash
- 15.1 Letter
- 15.2 See also
16 Crimean Tatar
- 16.1 Letter
- 16.2 See also
17 Dargwa
- 17.1 Letter
- 17.2 See also
18 Dungan
- 18.1 Letter
- 18.2 See also
19 Eastern Mari
- 19.1 Letter
- 19.2 See also
20 Even
- 20.1 Letter
- 20.2 See also
21 Evenki
- 21.1 Letter
- 21.2 See also
22 Ingush
- 22.1 Letter
- 22.2 See also
23 Itelmen
- 23.1 Letter
- 23.2 See also
24 Kabardian
- 24.1 Letter
- 24.2 See also
25 Kalmyk
- 25.1 Letter
- 25.2 See also
26 Kazakh
- 26.1 Pronunciation
- 26.2 Letter
- 26.3 See also
27 Khakas
- 27.1 Letter
- 27.2 See also
28 Kumyk
- 28.1 Letter
- 28.2 See also
29 Kyrgyz
- 29.1 Letter
- 29.2 See also
30 Lezgi
- 30.1 Letter
- 30.2 See also
31 Mongolian
- 31.1 Pronunciation
- 31.2 Letter
- 31.3 See also
32 Nivkh
- 32.1 Letter
- 32.2 See also
33 Northern Mansi
- 33.1 Letter
- 33.2 See also
34 Ossetian
- 34.1 Pronunciation
- 34.2 Letter
- 34.3 See also
35 Romanian
- 35.1 Letter
- 35.2 See also
36 Russian
- 36.1 Pronunciation
- 36.2 Etymology 1
  - 36.2.1 Letter
  - 36.2.2 Noun
  - 36.2.3 See also
- 36.3 Etymology 2
  - 36.3.1 Interjection
  - 36.3.2 See also
37 Southern Altai
- 37.1 Letter
- 37.2 See also
38 Tabasaran
- 38.1 Letter
- 38.2 See also
39 Tatar
- 39.1 Letter
- 39.2 See also
40 Tundra Nenets
- 40.1 Letter
- 40.2 See also
41 Tuvan
- 41.1 Letter
- 41.2 See also
42 Udmurt
- 42.1 Letter
- 42.2 See also
43 Wakhi
- 43.1 Pronunciation
- 43.2 Letter
44 Western Mari
- 44.1 Letter
- 44.2 See also
45 Yakut
- 45.1 Letter
- 45.2 See also

Translingual[edit]

ы	U+044B, ы CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YERU

← ъ
[U+044A]

Cyrillic

ь →
[U+044C]

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Letter[edit]

ы (upper case Ы)

A letter of the Cyrillic script, called y or yeru.

Letter[edit]

ы (upper case Ы)

A letter of the Old Cyrillic script, called yery.

Gallery[edit]

Regular.
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Handwritten.

Abaza[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (ə) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The sixty-seventh letter of the Abaza alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Abkhaz[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (ə) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The fifty-ninth letter of the Abkhaz alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Adyghe[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (ə) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The sixtieth letter of the Adyghe alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Aghul[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы (ə) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The forty-ninth letter of the Aghul alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Alutor[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /ə/

Letter[edit]

ы (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-fifth letter of the Alutor alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Archi[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы (ə) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The fifth letter of the Archi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Avar[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (ə) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The forty-second letter of the Avar alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Azerbaijani[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы (lower case, upper case Ы)

The twelfth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Bashkir[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /ɯ̞/; (in Russian borrowings) IPA^(key): /ɨ/

Letter[edit]

ы • (ı) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-seventh letter of the Bashkir alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Belarusian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): [ɨ]

Letter[edit]

ы • (y) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The twenty-eighth letter of the Belarusian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Buryat[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (y) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-second letter of the Buryat alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Chechen[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (y) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The forty-second letter of the Chechen alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Chukchi[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case Ы)

Chuvash[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (y) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-third letter of the Chuvash alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Crimean Tatar[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-third letter of the Crimean Tatar alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Dargwa[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (y) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The forty-second letter of the Dargwa alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Dungan[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (ɨ) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-fourth letter of the Dungan alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Eastern Mari[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (y) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-second letter of the Eastern Mari alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Even[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы (i) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-second letter of the Even alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Evenki[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (i) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirtieth letter of the Evenki alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Ingush[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (y) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The fortieth letter of the Ingush alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Itelmen[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The forty-third letter of the Itelmen alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Kabardian[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (ə) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The fifty-fourth letter of the Kabardian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Kalmyk[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (y) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-fifth letter of the Kalmyk alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Kazakh[edit]

Alternative scripts
Arabic	ى
Cyrillic	ы
Latin	y
Yañalif	ь

Pronunciation[edit]

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /ə/

Letter[edit]

ы • (y) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-seventh letter of the Kazakh alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Khakas[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (ı) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-fifth letter of the Khakas alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Kumyk[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (ı) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-fifth letter of the Kumyk alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Kyrgyz[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (ı) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-second letter of the Kyrgyz alphabet, called ы (ı), and written in the Cyrillic script.

Lezgi[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (y) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The forty-first letter of the Lezgi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Mongolian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈi/
Syllabification: ы (1 syllable)

Letter[edit]

ы • (y) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-first letter of the Mongolian alphabet, called урт ы (urt y), and written in the Cyrillic script.

Nivkh[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы (ə) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The forty-second letter of the Nivkh alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Northern Mansi[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы (y) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-sixth letter of the Northern Mansi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Ossetian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /ɨ/

Letter[edit]

ы • (y) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-ninth letter of the Ossetian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Romanian[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы (î) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The twenty-seventh letter of the Moldovan alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Russian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): [ɨ]
Audio: (file)

Etymology 1[edit]

Like many Cyrillic letters, originally the letter "y"/"yery" was formed from a ligature: "ꙑ", formed from "ъ" and "і" (formerly written either dotless or with two dots (see "ї")) or "и", whose former letterform resembled "н". In medieval manuscripts, it is almost always found as "ъі" or "ъи". Once the letters "ъ" and "ь" subsequently lost their values as vowels in the Slavic languages, the current simplified form "ы" evolved.

Letter[edit]

ы • (y) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The twenty-ninth letter of the Russian alphabet, called ы (y) or еры (jery), and written in the Cyrillic script.

Noun[edit]

ы • (y)ninan (indeclinable)

The name of the Cyrillic script letter ы.

Etymology 2[edit]

Interjection[edit]

ы • (y)

(Internet slang) lol, used to express laughter. Usually used as "ы-ы-ы", to show the crying sound you make after you were laughing for too long.
(Internet slang) ы? as a closing clause: Understand? Agree?

Southern Altai[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (ï) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-third letter of the Southern Altai alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Tabasaran[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (y) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The forty-second letter of the Tabasaran alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Tatar[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (ı) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-fifth letter of the Tatar alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Tundra Nenets[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (i) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirtieth letter of the Tundra Nenets alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Tuvan[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (ı) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-second letter of the Tuvan alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Udmurt[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (y) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-fourth letter of the Udmurt alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Wakhi[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ɨ/

Letter[edit]

ы (upper case Ы)

A letter of the Wakhi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Western Mari[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (y) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-second letter of the Western Mari alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Yakut[edit]

Letter[edit]

ы • (ı) (lower case, upper case Ы)

The thirty-sixth letter of the Yakut alphabet, called ы (ı), and written in the Cyrillic script.

FAQs

What is the origin of Ы? ›

The modern form ⟨ы⟩ first occurred in South Slavic manuscripts following the loss of palatalization of word-final and preconsonantal consonants, so the letters ⟨ъ⟩ and ⟨ь⟩ became confused; since the end of the 14th century, ⟨ы⟩ came to be used in East Slavic manuscripts.

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Russian typewriters like this one were manufactured without the digit 3 as the letter Ze could be used instead. Ze is derived from the Greek letter Zeta (Ζ ζ).

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What is Ы in English? ›

The sound of the letter "ы" is one of the few difficult sounds in the Russian language. In this course we represent its sound like this: [y]. The sound of "ы" has no English equivalent but it resembles the sound [i:] as in "be", "mean" or "three".

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Why is ы two letters? ›

Though the Cyrillic script, which the Russian language uses, is derived mostly from Greek, the letter ы takes it roots from the Old Church Slavonic language where it was the compound letter called еры (yery or eru) made up of ъ and і or и.

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The “Russians” you are thinking of might be of Jewish extraction - Jews in Eastern Europe were assigned German surnames. Or they might be of ethnic German background - there used to be a sizable German minority in Russia, to the extent that they got their own ethnic republic in the Soviet Union.

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Russian. Ranking fourth on our list of hardest languages to learn, Russian uses a Cyrillic alphabet — made up of letters both familiar and unfamiliar to us. But speaker beware: some of the Cyrillic letters may look familiar but make a different sound than the Latin letter they resemble.

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The modern Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters: twenty consonants (⟨б⟩, ⟨в⟩, ⟨г⟩, ⟨д⟩, ⟨ж⟩, ⟨з⟩, ⟨к⟩, ⟨л⟩, ⟨м⟩, ⟨н⟩, ⟨п⟩, ⟨р⟩, ⟨с⟩, ⟨т⟩, ⟨ф⟩, ⟨х⟩, ⟨ц⟩, ⟨ч⟩, ⟨ш⟩, ⟨щ⟩), ten vowels (⟨а⟩, ⟨е⟩, ⟨ё⟩, ⟨и⟩, ⟨о⟩, ⟨у⟩, ⟨ы⟩, ⟨э⟩, ⟨ю⟩, ⟨я⟩), a semivowel / consonant (⟨й⟩), and two modifier letters or "signs" (⟨ъ⟩, ⟨ь⟩) that ...

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What is Z in Cyrillic? ›

Ze (З, з) is the eighth letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It sounds like [z]. It looks like a 3 and can be mixed up with Э.

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What is a hedonista? ›

noun. hedonist [noun] someone who holds the belief that pleasure is the most important thing in life.

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Who owns wiktionary? ›

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What is f in Russian? ›

Ef or Fe (Ф ф; italics: Ф ф) is a Cyrillic letter, commonly representing the voiceless labiodental fricative /f/, like the pronunciation of ⟨f⟩ in "fill, flee, or fall". The Cyrillic letter Ef is romanized as ⟨f⟩.

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What does OBO mean in Russian? ›

обо • (obo) about, of, on [+prepositional] обо мне ― obo mne ― about me обо всех ― obo vsex ― about everybody.

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What's the difference between и and ы? ›

Letters ы and И и

Pay attention to the pronunciation of the vowels ы and и. Note that ы sounds like [ i ] in ill, whereas И и sounds like [ee] in meet. The letter ы never occurs as the first letter in the word, therefore it is never capitalized.

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What is the Russian name for ь? ›

The letter "ь" does not have any sound itself. It softens the letter before it. For example the words "есть" (to eat) and "ест" (he/she eats) sound different thanks to "ь". By the way, in Russian "ь" is called мягкий знак (myah-kij znak), which means "soft sign".

ы - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

Contents

Translingual[edit]

Letter[edit]

Letter[edit]

Gallery[edit]

Abaza[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Abkhaz[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Adyghe[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Aghul[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Alutor[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Archi[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Avar[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Azerbaijani[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Bashkir[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Belarusian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Buryat[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Chechen[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Chukchi[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Chuvash[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Crimean Tatar[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Dargwa[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Dungan[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Eastern Mari[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Even[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Evenki[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Ingush[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Itelmen[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Kabardian[edit]

Letter[edit]

See also[edit]

Kalmyk[edit]

Letter[edit]