Ye (Cyrillic)

For the Ukrainian alphabet letter Ye (Є є), see Ukrainian Ye.

Ye (Е е; italics: Е е) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In some languages this letter is called E.

It commonly represents the vowel /e/ or /ɛ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨e⟩ in "yes".

Ye is romanized using the Latin letter E.

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

Usage

Belarusian and Russian

• At the beginning of a word or after a vowel, Ye represents the combination /je/ or /jɛ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨ye⟩ in "yes".
• Following a consonant, Ye indicates that the consonant is palatalized, and represents the vowel /e/ or /ɛ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨e⟩ in "yes".

For further information see Russian phonology.

Ukrainian uses the letter Ukrainian Ye (Є є) in this way.

Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, and Ukrainian

This letter is called E, and represents the vowel /e/ or /ɛ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨e⟩ in the word "yes".

Related letters and other similar characters

• Ε ε : Greek letter Epsilon
• E e : Latin letter E
• Ɛ ɛ : Latin letter Epsilon
• Ё ё : Cyrillic letter Yo
• Є є : Cyrillic letter Ukrainian Ye
• Ԑ ԑ : Cyrillic letter Reversed Ze
• Э э : Cyrillic letter E

Computing codes

character	Е		е
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IE
character encoding	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	1045	0415	1077	0435
UTF-8	208 149	D0 95	208 181	D0 B5
Numeric character reference	Е	Е	е	е
KOI8-R and KOI8-U	229	E5	197	C5
Code page 855	169	A9	168	A8
Windows-1251	197	C5	229	E5
ISO-8859-5	181	B5	213	D5
Macintosh Cyrillic	133	85	229	E5

External links

• The Wiktionary entry for Е
• The Wiktionary entry for е