U+2D54 "ⵔ" Tifinagh Letter Yar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⵔ
U+2D54 "ⵔ" Tifinagh Letter Yar is a glyph representing a specific consonant sound in the Tifinagh script, which is used primarily to write the Berber languages of North Africa, such as Tamazight and Tuareg. In these languages, the character corresponds to a voiced alveolar trill or flap, similar to the English "r" sound in "car" but often pronounced with a single tap or roll depending on the dialect. The letter Yar is part of the modern standardized Neo-Tifinagh alphabet, which was officially adopted by Morocco in 2003 for use in education and public life, and it symbolizes an essential element of Berber linguistic heritage and cultural identity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D54 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Tifinagh Letter Yar |
| Block | Tifinagh |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⵔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⵔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB5 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D54 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D54 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d54 |