Kazakh Short U
Cyrillic letter used in Kazakh
Straight U with stroke (Ұ ұ; italics: Ұ ұ), is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Unicode, this letter is called "Straight U with stroke". Its form is the Cyrillic letter Ue (Ү ү Ү ү) with a horizontal stroke through it.
Usage
Kazakh Short U is used only in the alphabet of the Kazakh language, where it represents the near-close near-back rounded vowel /ʊ/, like the pronunciation of the ⟨oo⟩ in "book". In other circumstances, it is used as a replacement for the former letter to represent the close front rounded vowel /y/ in situations where it would be easily confused with Cyrillic У у. It is romanized as ⟨ū⟩ in Kazakh (2021 reform).
“Kazakh Short U” enters the record as cyrillic letter used in Kazakh. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kazakh, Short and Cyrillic can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Kazakh Short U” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kazakh, Short and Cyrillic provides the most credible route into that argument.
The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q425095. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021.
The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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