U+2D53 "ⵓ" Tifinagh Letter Yu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⵓ
U+2D53 "ⵓ" Tifinagh Letter Yu is a glyph from the Tifinagh script, traditionally used to write the Berber (Amazigh) languages of North Africa. This character represents the consonant sound /j/ or the semivowel "y," as in the English word "yes," and is a key component in modern standardized Tifinagh orthographies, particularly the Neo-Tifinagh system adopted in Morocco and Algeria for revitalizing Amazigh literacy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D53 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Tifinagh Letter Yu |
| Block | Tifinagh |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⵓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⵓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB5 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D53 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D53 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d53 |