U+2D43 "ⵃ" Tifinagh Letter Yahh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⵃ
U+2D43 "ⵃ" Tifinagh Letter Yahh is a consonant in the Tifinagh script, which is used to write the Tuareg languages and, in a modernized form, the Tamazight language of North Africa, particularly in Morocco and Algeria. It represents a voiceless pharyngeal fricative sound, similar to the English "h" but articulated deeper in the throat, and corresponds to the letter "ḥ" in Latin transliterations. This character is part of the Tifinagh block in Unicode, which was added to support the revitalization and digital representation of Amazigh languages, and it plays a role in preserving and promoting the cultural identity of the Berber peoples.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D43 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Tifinagh Letter Yahh |
| Block | Tifinagh |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⵃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⵃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB5 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D43 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d43 |