U+00DD "Ý" Latin Capital Letter Y with Acute Unicode Character
U+00DD "Ý" Latin Capital Letter Y with Acute is a modified version of the standard Latin letter Y, distinguished by the addition of an acute accent ( ´ ) above it, which typically indicates a stressed or high-pitched pronunciation in various languages. It is used in alphabets such as Czech, Icelandic, Faroese, and Slovak, as well as in the romanization of certain Slavic languages, where it often represents the sound of a long or palatalized Y. In Vietnamese, it appears in the word "ý" meaning "idea" or "meaning," and its uppercase form is employed in proper names and formal writing. Historically, this glyph originated from the medieval practice of adding diacritical marks to Latin script to represent distinct phonetic values, and it continues to play a specific role in modern orthography and typographic conventions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00DD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Y with Acute |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter Y Acute |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Y" U+0059 Latin Capital Letter Y "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ý |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ý |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00DD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000DD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00dd |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ý" U+00FD Latin Small Letter Y with Acute |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ý" U+00FD Latin Small Letter Y with Acute |
| Simple Case Folding | "ý" U+00FD Latin Small Letter Y with Acute |
| Case Folding | "ý" U+00FD Latin Small Letter Y with Acute |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ý" U+00FD Latin Small Letter Y with Acute |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ý" U+00FD Latin Small Letter Y with Acute |
| 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 | Upper |