U+01B3 "Ƴ" Latin Capital Letter Y with Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+01B3 "Ƴ" Latin Capital Letter Y with Hook is a modified version of the standard Latin capital Y, distinguished by a small hook attached to the lower right side of its descending stroke. This character is primarily used in the orthographies of several African languages, such as the Hausa language in Nigeria and Niger, where it represents a voiced velar or glottal stop sound, though its phonetic value can vary between languages. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation and text processing for these writing systems, supporting accurate preservation and communication of linguistic data.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01B3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Y with Hook |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter Y Hook |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ƴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ƴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01B3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001B3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01b3 |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ƴ" U+01B4 Latin Small Letter Y with Hook |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ƴ" U+01B4 Latin Small Letter Y with Hook |
| Simple Case Folding | "ƴ" U+01B4 Latin Small Letter Y with Hook |
| Case Folding | "ƴ" U+01B4 Latin Small Letter Y with Hook |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ƴ" U+01B4 Latin Small Letter Y with Hook |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ƴ" U+01B4 Latin Small Letter Y with Hook |
| 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 |