U+064A "ي" Arabic Letter Yeh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+064A "ي" Arabic Letter Yeh is a fundamental letter in the Arabic alphabet, representing the consonant sound /j/ (like the English "y" in "yes") and also functioning as a long vowel for the sound /iː/ (like the "ee" in "see"). As the twenty-eighth and final letter of the standard Arabic alphabet, it is widely used across languages that employ the Arabic script, including Persian and Urdu, where it often carries distinct dot configurations or final forms. In Arabic, its shape varies depending on its position in a word, connecting to adjacent letters in a cursive manner. This character plays a crucial role in both the phonetics and morphology of written Arabic, appearing in common words such as "في" (fee) meaning "in" and "يدي" (yadī) meaning "my hand."

General Properties

Code Point U+064A
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Yeh
Unicode 1.0 Name Arabic Letter Ya
Block Arabic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ي
HTML Hex Encoding ي
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD9 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0x064A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000064A
C/C++/Java Escape \u064a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Dual Joining
Joining Group Yeh
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
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 OLetter