U+1E8F "ẏ" Latin Small Letter Y with Dot Above Unicode Character

U+1E8F "ẏ" Latin Small Letter Y with Dot Above is a specialized glyph used primarily in certain transliteration systems and in the orthography of a few languages, most notably in older or scholarly transcriptions of Welsh and in the Livonian language. It represents the letter Y modified with a combining dot above, which can indicate a specific phonetic value, such as a palatalized or centralized vowel sound depending on the context. While not common in everyday modern text, this character serves as an important diacritic variant for accurate representation of linguistic data and historical documents.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E8F
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Y with Dot Above
Block	Latin Extended Additional
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"y" U+0079 Latin Small Letter Y "̇" U+0307 Combining Dot Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ẏ
HTML Hex Encoding	ẏ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBA 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1E8F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001E8F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1e8f

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ẏ" U+1E8E Latin Capital Letter Y with Dot Above
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ẏ" U+1E8E Latin Capital Letter Y with Dot Above
Uppercase Code Point	"Ẏ" U+1E8E Latin Capital Letter Y with Dot Above
Titlecase Code Point	"Ẏ" U+1E8E Latin Capital Letter Y with Dot Above
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower