U (Mongolic)

U is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages.^[1]^{: 549–551}

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U

ᠠ a	ᠡ e	ᠢ i	ᠣ o	ᠤ u	ᠥ ö	ᠦ ü
ᠧ (ē)

Mongolian consonants

Transcribes Chakhar /ʊ/;^[6]^[7] Khalkha /ʊ/, /ə/, and /∅/.^[8]^: 40–42 Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter у.^[9]^[4]
Indistinguishable from o, except where u can be inferred from its context:
- u is found in medial or final syllables if a/u are found syllable-initially (and most often after a syllable-initial i).^[2]^: 19^[10]^: 9–10
‍ᠤ᠋‍ = medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound.^[11]^: 44
Derived from Old Uyghur waw (𐽳), preceded by an aleph (𐽰) for isolate and initial forms.^[3]^{: 539–540, 545–546}^[12]^{: 111, 113}^[11]^: 35
Produced with V using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.^[13]
In the Mongolian Unicode block, u comes after o and before ö.

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