U+1E8E "Ẏ" Latin Capital Letter Y with Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E8E "Ẏ" Latin Capital Letter Y with Dot Above is a grapheme used primarily in transliteration and extended Latin alphabets, representing the letter Y with a dot diacritic positioned above it. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is employed in scholarly contexts, such as romanizing certain Semitic languages or denoting specific phonetic values in linguistics. It should not be confused with the lowercase version or similar dotted letters, and its usage helps maintain precision in written representation of sounds that require a modified Y.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E8E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Y with Dot Above |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Y" U+0059 Latin Capital Letter Y "̇" U+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ẏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ẏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E8E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e8e |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ẏ" U+1E8F Latin Small Letter Y with Dot Above |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ẏ" U+1E8F Latin Small Letter Y with Dot Above |
| Simple Case Folding | "ẏ" U+1E8F Latin Small Letter Y with Dot Above |
| Case Folding | "ẏ" U+1E8F Latin Small Letter Y with Dot Above |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ẏ" U+1E8F Latin Small Letter Y with Dot Above |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ẏ" U+1E8F Latin Small Letter Y with Dot Above |
| 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 |