High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Short U (Ў ў; italics: Ў ў) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. The only Slavic language using this letter is the Belarusian Cyrillic alphabet. Among the non-Slavic languages using Cyrillic alphabets, ў is used in the Dungan language and in the Siberian Yupik language. It was also used in Uzbek before the adoption of the Latin alphabet in 1992.