used historically in certain loanwords in the Cyrillic script version of Aleut. Izhitsa as a replacement of a different character In Russian typography, the capital form of izhitsa has traditionally been used instead of the Roman numeral V; this tradition survived several decades longer than izhitsa as a letter of the alphabet. The izhitsa is sometimes used in place of the new IPA symbol for the labiodental flap (ⱱ) because the signs are similar. Computing codes The tailed variant of izhitsa has no individual position in Unicode; instead, the characters and are supposed to represent it. See also Ү ү : Cyrillic letter ue, used in various languages as a close front rounded vowel (/y/) Ӱ ӱ : Cyrillic letter u with diaeresis, used in several languages as a close front rounded vowel (/y/) Notes References A Berdnikov and O Lapko, "Old Slavonic and Church Slavonic in TEX and Unicode", EuroTEX ’99 Proceedings, September 1999 (PDF) F Lauritzen, Michael the Grammarian's irony about hypsilon: a step towards reconstructing Byzantine pronunciation, Byzantinoslavica 67 (2009) 231–240