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U is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages.

Mongolian language

U
The Mongolian script
Mongolian vowels
ᠠa ᠡe ᠢi ᠣo ᠤu ᠥö ᠦü ᠧ(ē)
Mongolian consonants
ᠨn ᠩng ᠪb ᠫ(p) ᠬq/k ᠭɣ/g ᠮm ᠯl ᠰs ᠱš ᠲt ᠳd ᠴč ᠵǰ ᠶy ᠷr ᠸ(w)
Foreign consonants
Mongolian script multigraphs
v t e

Separated suffixes
‑u(...)	‑u	‑un	‑ud	‑uruɣu	Transliteration
	ᠤ	—	—	—	Whole
	—	ᠤᠨ	ᠤᠳ
		—	—	ᠤᠷᠤᠭᠤ

• Transcribes Chakhar /ʊ/; Khalkha /ʊ/, /ə/, and /∅/. Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter у.
• 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).
• ‍ᠤ᠋‍ = medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound.
• Derived from Old Uyghur waw (𐽳), preceded by an aleph (𐽰) for isolate and initial forms.
• Produced with V using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.
• In the Mongolian Unicode block, u comes after o and before ö.

Clear Script

Xibe language

Manchu language

Notes

1. Scholarly transliteration.
2. Separated suffixes starting with, or made up by the letter u include:  ᠤ ‑u or  ᠤᠨ ‑un (genitive),  ᠤᠳ ‑ud (plural), and  ᠤᠷᠤᠭᠤ ‑uruɣu (directive).

References

1. "The Unicode Standard, Version 14.0 – Core Specification Chapter 13: South and Central Asia-II, Other Modern Scripts" (PDF). www.unicode.org. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
2. ^ Poppe, Nicholas (1974). Grammar of Written Mongolian. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-00684-2.
3. ^ Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William (1996). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507993-7.
4. ^ "Mongolian transliterations" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2006-05-06.
5. "PROPOSAL Encode Mongolian Suffix Connector (U+180F) To Replace Narrow Non-Breaking Space (U+202F)" (PDF). UTC Document Register for 2017. 2017-01-15.
6. "Mongolian Traditional Script". Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Mongolian Language Site. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
7. "Writing – Study Mongolian". Study Mongolian. August 2013. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
8. Svantesson, Jan-Olof; Tsendina, Anna; Karlsson, Anastasia; Franzen, Vivan (2005-02-10). The Phonology of Mongolian. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-151461-6.
9. Skorodumova, L. G. (2000). Vvedenie v staropismenny mongolskiy yazyk Введение в старописьменный монгольский язык (PDF) (in Russian). Muravey-Gayd. ISBN 5-8463-0015-4.
10. Grønbech, Kaare; Krueger, John Richard (1993). An Introduction to Classical (literary) Mongolian: Introduction, Grammar, Reader, Glossary. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-03298-8.
11. ^ Janhunen, Juha (2006-01-27). The Mongolic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-79690-7.
12. Clauson, Gerard (2005-11-04). Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-43012-3.
13. jowilco. "Windows keyboard layouts - Globalization". Microsoft Docs. Retrieved 2022-05-16.

• Mongolic letters
• Mongolic languages
• Tungusic languages