U+2D42 "ⵂ" Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⵂ
U+2D42 "ⵂ" Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yah is a specific glyph within the Tifinagh script, which is used for writing the Berber languages of North Africa, particularly the Tuareg variant. It represents the consonant sound "y" and is distinct from other Tifinagh letters, as it is part of the Tuareg subset of the script, which includes additional characters not found in standard Neo-Tifinagh. The letter is encoded in the Unicode Tifinagh block, which was added to support the digital representation of the Tamazight and related languages, helping to preserve and modernize the writing system for use in computing and text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D42 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yah |
| Block | Tifinagh |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⵂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⵂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB5 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D42 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d42 |