Yn
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Yn (Ꙟ ꙟ) is an archaic Cyrillic letter. It looks like the Cyrillic letter Psi (Ѱ ѱ) with its upper half turned upside down, but the letter mostly looks like an arrow pointing vertically up (↑).
It was used in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, where it represented the sounds [n̩], [m̩], and [ɨ] at the beginning of words.[1] In the modern Romanian alphabet it is replaced by ⟨în⟩, ⟨îm⟩, or ⟨î⟩.
Computing codes
[edit]Preview | Ꙟ | ꙟ | ||
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Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YN | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YN | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 42590 | U+A65E | 42591 | U+A65F |
UTF-8 | 234 153 158 | EA 99 9E | 234 153 159 | EA 99 9F |
Numeric character reference | Ꙟ |
Ꙟ |
ꙟ |
ꙟ |
As few fonts contain the appropriate glyphs, the Upwards Arrow (↑) is sometimes substituted. The notable fonts that have included this glyph are FreeSerif and Segoe UI (since Windows 8).
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS" (PDF). Unicode Consortium. 9 January 2007.