U+2D48 "ⵈ" Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yaq Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⵈ
U+2D48 "ⵈ" Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yaq is a specific letter from the Tifinagh script, which is used by the Tuareg people, a Berber ethnic group primarily residing in the Sahara Desert regions of North Africa. This character represents the sound "yq" or a voiced uvular consonant in the Tuareg dialect, distinguishing it from other Tifinagh letters used for different Berber languages. It is part of the Tifinagh block in Unicode, which was standardized to digitally preserve and facilitate the use of the script for writing, education, and cultural expression among Tuareg communities. The inclusion of this character helps support the linguistic diversity and digital accessibility of the Berber language family.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D48 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yaq |
| Block | Tifinagh |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⵈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⵈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB5 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D48 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D48 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d48 |