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

Cyrillic letter Ye
Unicode (hex)
majuscule: U+0415
minuscule: U+0435
Cyrillic script Slavic letters
А	Б	В	Г	Ґ	Д	Ђ
Ѓ	Е	Ѐ	Ё	Є	Ж	З
Ѕ	И	Ѝ	І	Ї	Й	Ј
К	Л	Љ	М	Н	Њ	О
П	Р	С	Т	Ћ	Ќ	У
Ў	Ф	Х	Ц	Ч	Џ	Ш
Щ	Ъ	Ы	Ь	Э	Ю	Я
Non-Slavic letters
Ӑ	Ӓ	Ә	Ӛ	Ӕ	Ғ	Ҕ
Ӻ	Ӷ	Ԁ	Ԃ	Ꚉ	Ӗ	Ӂ
Җ	Ӝ	Ԅ	Ҙ	Ӟ	Ԑ	Ӡ
Ԇ	Ӣ	Ҋ	Ӥ	Қ	Ӄ	Ҡ
Ҟ	Ҝ	Ԟ	Ԛ	Ӆ	Ԓ	Ԡ
Ԉ	Ԕ	Ӎ	Ӊ	Ң	Ӈ	Ҥ
Ԣ	Ԋ	Ӧ	Ө	Ӫ	Ҩ	Ԥ
Ҧ	Ҏ	Ԗ	Ҫ	Ԍ	Ҭ	Ԏ
Ӯ	Ӱ	Ӳ	Ү	Ұ	Ҳ	Ӽ
Ӿ	Һ	Ԧ	Ҵ	Ҷ	Ӵ	Ӌ
Ҹ	Ꚇ	Ҽ	Ҿ	Ӹ	Ҍ	Ӭ
Ԙ	Ԝ	Ӏ
Archaic letters
Ҁ	Ѻ	Ѹ	Ѡ	Ѿ	Ѣ	Ꙓ
Ꙗ	Ѥ	Ѧ	Ѫ	Ѩ	Ѭ	Ѯ
Ѱ	Ѳ	Ѵ	Ѷ	Ꙟ
List of Cyrillic letters
Cyrillic digraphs

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.^[1]

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

Usage[link]

Belarusian and Russian[link]

• 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[link]

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

Related letters and other similar characters[link]

• 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[link]

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• The Wiktionary entry for Е
• The Wiktionary entry for еlez:Е