"Ue or Straight U (\u04AE \u04AF; italics: \u04AE \u04AF) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is a form of the Cyrillic letter U (\u0423 \u0443 \u0423 \u0443) with a vertical, rather than diagonal, center line. Though the letter resembles the Latin letter Y (Y y) in its uppercase form, the two should not be confused.Ue is used the alphabets of the Bashkir, Buryat, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Tatar and other languages."@en . . . .