U+2D42 "ⵂ" Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yah Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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