U+2D4B "ⵋ" Tifinagh Letter Ahaggar Yazh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⵋ
U+2D4B "ⵋ" Tifinagh Letter Ahaggar Yazh is a specific glyph used in the Tifinagh script, which is traditionally employed to write Berber languages, notably the Tuareg dialect of the Ahaggar region. This letter represents a voiced palatal or post-alveolar fricative sound, similar to the "zh" in English words like "measure", and forms part of the extended Tifinagh repertoire for accurately transcribing regional phonetic variations. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates digital representation and preservation of the Ahaggar Tuareg orthography, supporting linguistic diversity and cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D4B |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Tifinagh Letter Ahaggar Yazh |
| Block | Tifinagh |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⵋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⵋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB5 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D4B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D4B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d4b |