U+2D44 "ⵄ" Tifinagh Letter Yaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⵄ
U+2D44 "ⵄ" Tifinagh Letter Yaa is a grapheme used in the Tifinagh script, which is traditionally employed to write Berber languages such as Tamazight, particularly in North Africa, including Morocco and Algeria. In the standard Tifinagh alphabet, this letter represents the voiced pharyngeal fricative consonant sound, similar to the Arabic letter 'ayn (ع), and is an integral part of the modern Neo-Tifinagh orthography promoted by efforts to preserve and revitalize Amazigh linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D44 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Tifinagh Letter Yaa |
| Block | Tifinagh |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⵄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⵄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB5 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D44 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d44 |