Ukrainian Ye

Ukrainian Ye (Є є; italics: Є є) is a character of the Cyrillic script. It is considered as an individual letter of modern Ukrainian alphabet (the 8th in row since 1992, and the 7th before this date) and as a variant form of Ye (Е е) in modern Church Slavonic language (where the selection of Є and Е is driven by orthography rules, see below). Until mid-19th century, Є/є has also been used in Serbian language (in Vuk Karadžić's alphabet, the letter was eliminated and replaced by digraph је). Other modern Slavonic languages may use Є/є shapes instead of Е/е for decorative purposes.

In Ukrainian, Є/є commonly represents the sound /je/ or /jɛ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨ye⟩ in "yes". (See Usage for more detail.)

Ukrainian Ye is romanized as ⟨je⟩ or ⟨e⟩. See Scientific transliteration of Cyrillic.