Kazakh Short U
Kazakh Short U is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Unicode, this letter is called "Straight U with stroke". Its form is the Cyrillic letter Ue with a horizontal line through it. It is similar to the symbol for the Japanese yen or the Chinese yuan, and the Latin letter Y with stroke.
Kazakh Short U is used in the alphabet of the Kazakh language, where it represents the close back rounded vowel, or the near-close near-back rounded vowel. In other circumstances, it is used as a replacement for the former letter to represent close front rounded vowel in situations where it would be easilly confused with Cyrillic letter У у. It is romanized as in Kazakh.Polish
In Polish, uppercase Latin Ұ is a stylistic variant of "Y".
