Ye (Cyrillic)

Ye, Je, or Ie е; italics: Е е) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In some languages this letter is called E. It looks like another version of E (Cyrillic).

Cyrillic letter Ye
Phonetic usage:[e], [ɛ], [je], [jɛ]
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
АБВГҐДЂ
ЃЕЀЁЄЖЗ
З́ЅИЍЙІЇ
ЈКЛЉМНЊ
ОŌПРСС́Т
ЋЌУӮЎФХ
ЦЧЏШЩЪЫ
ЬЭЮЯ
Non-Slavic letters
А́А̀ӐА̄А̊А̃Ӓ
Ӓ̄ӔӘӘ́Ә̃ӚВ̌
ҒГ̧Г̑Г̄Г̣Г̌Ҕ
ӺҒ̌ӶԀԂ
Д̆Д̣ԪԬД̆Ӗ
Е̄Е̃Ё̄Є̈ӁҖ
ӜԄҘӞЗ̌З̱З̣
ԐԐ̈ӠԆӢИ̃Ҋ
ӤИ́ҚӃҠҞҜ
ԞК̣ԚӅԮԒԠ
ԈԔӍӉҢԨӇ
ҤԢԊО́О̀О̆О̂
О̃ӦӦ̄ӨӨ̄Ө́Ө̆
ӪҨԤҦР̌ҎԖ
ҪС̣С̱ԌТ̌Т̣
ҬԎУ̃ӰӰ́
ӲҮҮ́ҰХ̣Х̱Х̮
Х̑ҲӼӾҺҺ̈Ԧ
ҴҶӴӋҸ
ҼҾЫ̆Ы̄
ӸҌЭ̆Э̄Э̇ӬӬ́
Ӭ̄Ю̆Ю̈Ю̈́Ю̄Я̆Я̄
Я̈ԘԜӀ
Archaic letters
ҀѺ
ОУѠѼѾ
ѢѤѦ
ѪѨѬѮ
ѰѲѴѶ

It commonly represents the vowel [e] or [ɛ], like the pronunciation of e in "yes".

Ye is romanized using the Latin letter E.[1]

It was derived from the Greek letter epsilon (Ε ε).

Usage

Russian and Belarusian

  • At the beginning of a word or after a vowel, Ye represents the phonemic combination /je/ (phonetically [je] or [jɛ]), like the pronunciation of ye in "yes". Ukrainian uses the letter є (see Ukrainian Ye) in this way.
  • Following a consonant, Ye indicates that the consonant is palatalized, and represents the vowel /e/ (phonetically [e] or [ɛ]), like the pronunciation of e in "yes".

In Russian, the letter е can follow unpalatalized consonants, especially ж, ш, and ц. In some loanwords, other consonants before е (especially т, д, н, с, з, and р) are also not palatalized, see E (Cyrillic). The letter е also represents /jo/ (as in "yogurt") and /o/ after palatalized consonants, ж, and ш. In these cases, ё may be used, see Yo (Cyrillic). In unstressed syllables, e represents reduced vowels like [ɪ], see Russian phonology and Vowel reduction in Russian.

Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Montenegrin, Ukrainian and Rusyn

This letter is called E, and represents the vowel phoneme /e/ (phonetically [e] or [ɛ]), like the pronunciation of e in the word "set".

Mongolian

The letter represents the sound /jo/ at the beginning of words (yo represents /jɔ/), and also represents /je/ at the beginning of some words and in the middle or end of words and /e/ in Russian loanwords and transcriptions of foreign names.

Turkic languages and Tajik

In Turkic languages utilizing the Cyrillic script (such as Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Uzbek) and in Tajik, Ye is used to represent the phoneme e~ɛ, both word-finally and medially. Isolated, word-initially, or vowel-succeeding, this letter is substituted with the letter Э. If the letter Ye occurs word-initially, isolated, or vowel-succeeding, it represents the phoneme /je/~/jɛ/.

Computing codes

Character information
PreviewЕе
Unicode nameCYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IECYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IE
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode1045U+04151077U+0435
UTF-8208 149D0 95208 181D0 B5
Numeric character referenceЕЕее
Named character referenceЕе
KOI8-R and KOI8-U229E5197C5
Code page 855169A9168A8
Windows-1251197C5229E5
ISO-8859-5181B5213D5
Macintosh Cyrillic13385229E5

Notes

  1. "Ye" is sometimes also transliterated as ie, je, or ye.
  • The dictionary definition of Е at Wiktionary
  • The dictionary definition of е at Wiktionary
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