U+0B5F "ୟ" Oriya Letter Yya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0B5F "ୟ" Oriya Letter Yya is a consonant used in the Odia script, primarily for writing the Odia language of eastern India. It represents a palatal approximant sound, similar to the English "y" in "yes," and is a distinct letter in the Odia alphabet, typically falling between the consonants. This character is employed in a variety of words and is essential for accurate transliteration and representation of native Odia vocabulary, as well as for preserving the linguistic orthography of the region within digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B5F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Oriya Letter Yya |
| Block | Oriya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ୟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ୟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAD 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B5F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B5F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b5f |