U+2D37 "ⴷ" Tifinagh Letter Yad Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2D37 "ⴷ" Tifinagh Letter Yad is a character from the Tifinagh script, which is traditionally used to write the Berber (Amazigh) languages of North Africa. It represents a voiced dental or alveolar fricative sound, similar to the English "th" in the word "this," and corresponds to the letter "y" in the Latin-based Berber alphabet. This character is part of the Tifinagh block in Unicode, which was added to support the revival and digital representation of the Amazigh cultural heritage. The Yad letter appears in the modern Neo-Tifinagh standardization and is commonly used in educational materials, signage, and digital communication in regions like Morocco and Algeria.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D37 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Tifinagh Letter Yad |
| Block | Tifinagh |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⴷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⴷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB4 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D37 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D37 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d37 |