U+0079 "y" Latin Small Letter Y Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0079 "y" Latin Small Letter Y is a fundamental letter in the Latin alphabet, representing the lowercase version of the twenty fifth letter. It is part of the Basic Latin block, also known as ASCII, where it occupies the hexadecimal codepoint 0079. In English and many other languages, this character functions as both a consonant, as in "yes", and a vowel, as in "myth" or "gym". Its numeric value in the ASCII standard is 121 in decimal, and it is commonly used in computing, typography, and text encoding as a standard alphabetic symbol.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0079 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Y |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | y |
| HTML Hex Encoding | y |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0x79 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0079 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000079 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0079 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Narrow |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Y" U+0059 Latin Capital Letter Y |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Y" U+0059 Latin Capital Letter Y |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Y" U+0059 Latin Capital Letter Y |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Y" U+0059 Latin Capital Letter Y |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Lower |