U+0D2F "യ" Malayalam Letter Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
യ
U+0D2F "യ" Malayalam Letter Ya is the thirty second consonant of the Malayalam abugida, representing the voiced palatal approximant sound equivalent to the English letter "y". In the Malayalam script, this character serves as both an independent letter and as a base form that can take various vowel diacritics to create combined syllables. It is used extensively in writing the Malayalam language, which is primarily spoken in the Indian state of Kerala, and appears in common words such as "yathra" meaning journey and "yoga." The character belongs to the Malayalam block of the Unicode Standard, with a typical rendering that features a distinctive curled shape with a top loop, reflecting its historical evolution from the ancient Brahmi script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D2F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Letter Ya |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | യ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | യ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB4 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D2F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D2F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d2f |