U+1E99 "ẙ" Latin Small Letter Y with Ring Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ẙ
U+1E99 "ẙ" Latin Small Letter Y with Ring Above is a specialized typographic symbol used primarily in medieval manuscript studies and certain scholarly transliterations of ancient or historical texts. It represents the letter "y" with a diacritical ring placed above it, which may indicate a specific phonetic quality such as a shortened or vocalic sound, or serve as a scribal abbreviation in Old English and Old Norse manuscripts. This character is rarely seen in modern standard languages, but it remains important for accurate digital representation of historical documents and linguistic reconstruction, ensuring that the precise orthographic details of original sources are preserved in academic work and archival digitization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E99 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Y with Ring 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+030A Combining Ring Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ẙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ẙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E99 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E99 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e99 |