U+021D "ȝ" Latin Small Letter Yogh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ȝ
U+021D "ȝ" Latin Small Letter Yogh is a historical letter used primarily in Middle English and Older Scots orthography, representing a sound similar to the modern "y" or the voiced velar fricative. Originating from the Old English insular form of the letter "g," it was commonly employed in words like "night" or "through" before being largely replaced by "gh" and "y" in modern spelling. Though no longer part of the standard English alphabet, yogh remains important in historical linguistics and medieval manuscript studies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+021D |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Yogh |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ȝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ȝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x021D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000021D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u021d |
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 |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ȝ" U+021C Latin Capital Letter Yogh |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ȝ" U+021C Latin Capital Letter Yogh |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ȝ" U+021C Latin Capital Letter Yogh |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ȝ" U+021C Latin Capital Letter Yogh |
| 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 |