U+024E "Ɏ" Latin Capital Letter Y with Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+024E "Ɏ" Latin Capital Letter Y with Stroke is a modified Latin letter used primarily in the orthography of certain African languages, such as the Kpelle language of Liberia and Guinea, where it represents a distinct sound, typically a high central or close central unrounded vowel. It is formed by adding a horizontal stroke through the middle of the standard uppercase Y, visually distinguishing it from the regular letter. This character belongs to the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode and is the uppercase counterpart to the lowercase character U+024F "ɏ". Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation and text processing for writing systems that require this specific grapheme.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+024E |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Y with Stroke |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ɏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ɏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC9 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x024E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000024E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u024e |
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 | "ɏ" U+024F Latin Small Letter Y with Stroke |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ɏ" U+024F Latin Small Letter Y with Stroke |
| Simple Case Folding | "ɏ" U+024F Latin Small Letter Y with Stroke |
| Case Folding | "ɏ" U+024F Latin Small Letter Y with Stroke |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ɏ" U+024F Latin Small Letter Y with Stroke |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɏ" U+024F Latin Small Letter Y with Stroke |
| 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 |