U+2D38 "ⴸ" Tifinagh Letter Yadh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2D38 "ⴸ" Tifinagh Letter Yadh is a letter in the Tifinagh script used primarily by the Tuareg people and in modern Berber languages, particularly Tamazight, for which it represents a voiced dental fricative sound similar to the "th" in the English word "the". This character belongs to the Tifinagh block of the Unicode standard and is part of the Neo-Tifinagh alphabet, which was adopted in Morocco for official use in Berber language education and media. The letter Yadh corresponds to the twenty-eighth letter in the standard Tifinagh alphabet and is distinct from other similar characters due to its specific diacritic shape, which resembles a curved line with a dot.

General Properties

Code Point U+2D38
Version Added 4.1
Name Tifinagh Letter Yadh
Block Tifinagh
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ⴸ
HTML Hex Encoding ⴸ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0xB4 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2D38
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002D38
C/C++/Java Escape \u2d38

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Tifinagh
Script Extensions Tifinagh
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 OLetter