U+00FD "ý" Latin Small Letter Y with Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+00FD "ý" Latin Small Letter Y with Acute is a precomposed glyph used primarily in several languages, including Icelandic, Faroese, Czech, Slovak, and Welsh, where it represents a distinct vowel sound often pronounced as a long or stressed /iː/ or /ɨː/. It is formed by combining the base Latin letter Y with an acute accent, called an *acut* in typography, which marks a rise in pitch or primary stress in those orthographies. In Unicode, this character is part of the Latin-1 Supplement block, enabling consistent digital representation for texts that require this specific diacritic.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00FD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Y with Acute |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter Y Acute |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "y" U+0079 Latin Small Letter Y "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ý |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ý |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00FD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000FD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00fd |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ý" U+00DD Latin Capital Letter Y with Acute |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ý" U+00DD Latin Capital Letter Y with Acute |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ý" U+00DD Latin Capital Letter Y with Acute |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ý" U+00DD Latin Capital Letter Y with Acute |
| 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 |