U+095F "य़" Devanagari Letter Yya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
य़
U+095F "य़" Devanagari Letter Yya is a relatively rare glyph used primarily to represent the specific phonetic sound of a voiced palatal approximant, often corresponding to the Urdu or Persian letter "ye" in loanwords when a distinct, more palatalized version of the standard Devanagari "ya" (य) is needed. It appears in transliterations and scholarly texts for languages like Kashmiri or Sanskrit influenced by Persian, where it distinguishes a softer, more fronted pronunciation, but it is not commonly found in everyday Hindi or standard Devanagari script usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+095F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Yya |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "य" U+092F Devanagari Letter Ya "़" U+093C Devanagari Sign Nukta |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | य़ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | य़ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA5 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x095F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000095F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u095f |