U+2D38 "ⴸ" Tifinagh Letter Yadh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⴸ
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 |