U+2D30 "ⴰ" Tifinagh Letter Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⴰ
U+2D30 "ⴰ" Tifinagh Letter Ya is the first letter of the Tifinagh alphabet, representing a glottal stop or a vowel sound similar to the "a" in the English word "father". It is used in the modern standard Tifinagh script to write the Berber languages, particularly in Morocco and Algeria, and was officially encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the Tifinagh block. This character serves as a fundamental building block in the orthography of Tamazight, helping to preserve and promote the linguistic heritage of Amazigh communities across North Africa.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D30 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Tifinagh Letter Ya |
| Block | Tifinagh |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⴰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⴰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB4 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D30 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D30 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d30 |