U+2D31 "ⴱ" Tifinagh Letter Yab Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⴱ
U+2D31 "ⴱ" Tifinagh Letter Yab is a character in the Tifinagh script used primarily to write the Tamazight language, a Berber language spoken across North Africa. It represents the voiced bilabial stop sound equivalent to the Latin letter "B" or the Arabic letter "ب". As part of the Tifinagh block in Unicode, this character supports the modern standardized Neo-Tifinagh alphabet, which was officially adopted by Morocco in 2003 for writing Amazigh languages. The Tifinagh script has ancient origins, dating back to the Libyan or Numidian scripts used by Berber peoples thousands of years ago, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally enable this cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D31 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Tifinagh Letter Yab |
| Block | Tifinagh |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⴱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⴱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB4 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D31 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D31 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d31 |