U+0176 "Ŷ" Latin Capital Letter Y with Circumflex Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ŷ
U+0176 "Ŷ" Latin Capital Letter Y with Circumflex is a precomposed letter used in the orthography of several languages, most notably in Welsh and occasionally in old or phonetic transcriptions of Maltese, where the circumflex diacritic indicates a long vowel or a specific stress pattern. In Welsh, it appears in words like "Ŷ" itself, representing the letter Y with a circumflex to denote a long /ɨː/ or /iː/ sound, distinguishing it from its short counterpart. This character is part of the Latin Extended-A Unicode block and is typically used in textual representations where such diacritical precision is required for accurate pronunciation or linguistic analysis.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0176 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Y with Circumflex |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter Y Circumflex |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| 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+0302 Combining Circumflex Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ŷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ŷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0176 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000176 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0176 |
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 | "ŷ" U+0177 Latin Small Letter Y with Circumflex |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ŷ" U+0177 Latin Small Letter Y with Circumflex |
| Simple Case Folding | "ŷ" U+0177 Latin Small Letter Y with Circumflex |
| Case Folding | "ŷ" U+0177 Latin Small Letter Y with Circumflex |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ŷ" U+0177 Latin Small Letter Y with Circumflex |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ŷ" U+0177 Latin Small Letter Y with Circumflex |
| 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 |