U+2D4C "ⵌ" Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yazh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2D4C "ⵌ" Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yazh is a specific glyph used in the Tuareg variant of the Tifinagh script, which is employed to write Berber languages, primarily among the Tuareg people in the Sahara and Sahel regions. This character represents a consonant sound, often transliterated as "ž" (like the English "zh" in "measure"), and is distinct from other Tifinagh letters due to its unique shape and phonetic value within the Tuareg orthography. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard helps preserve and digitally represent this important part of Berber linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D4C |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yazh |
| Block | Tifinagh |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⵌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⵌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB5 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D4C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D4C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d4c |