U+1EF2 "Ỳ" Latin Capital Letter Y with Grave Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1EF2 "Ỳ" Latin Capital Letter Y with Grave is a typographic variant of the standard Latin letter Y, distinguished by the addition of a grave accent (`) that descends from left to right above the character. This grapheme is primarily used in the orthography of the Vietnamese language, where it represents the low falling or low level tone on the vowel Y, as well as in certain Welsh contexts and other linguistic systems for denoting phonological stress or tone. The character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is encoded for digital text processing to ensure accurate representation of languages that rely on diacritical marks for proper meaning and pronunciation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EF2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Y with Grave |
| 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+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ỳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ỳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBB 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EF2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EF2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ef2 |
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 | "ỳ" U+1EF3 Latin Small Letter Y with Grave |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ỳ" U+1EF3 Latin Small Letter Y with Grave |
| Simple Case Folding | "ỳ" U+1EF3 Latin Small Letter Y with Grave |
| Case Folding | "ỳ" U+1EF3 Latin Small Letter Y with Grave |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ỳ" U+1EF3 Latin Small Letter Y with Grave |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ỳ" U+1EF3 Latin Small Letter Y with Grave |
| 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 |