Russian / Signs and the ya-yu-yo family

Ёё

The letter “ё

/yo/

Ё ё sounds like yo, as in "yolk". Two dots turn Е into Ё: say "yo", not "ye".

Where is Ё on the keyboard?

On the phonetic layout it sits where its sound-alike Latin key would be. On real Russian keyboards (ЙЦУКЕН) it lives somewhere else entirely, since Cyrillic keyboards were never designed to match Latin sounds to Latin key positions.

Russian Phonetic
Ё
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Я
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Й
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Ь
Э
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З
Ж
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Б
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Ю
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Russian (ЙЦУКЕН)
Ё
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Words that use Ё ё

  • ёлка/yolka/fir tree
  • ёж/yozh/hedgehog
  • её/eyo/her, hers