U+2D55 "ⵕ" Tifinagh Letter Yarr Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⵕ
U+2D55 "ⵕ" Tifinagh Letter Yarr is a glyph used in the Tifinagh script, which is traditionally employed to write the Berber languages of North Africa, especially in Morocco, Algeria, and parts of Mali and Niger. This specific character represents a distinctive consonant sound, typically a retroflex or emphatic “r” (often transliterated as “ṛ” or “rr”), and it is part of the modern Neo-Tifinagh alphabet standardized by the Unicode Consortium to support digital and print communication for Tamazight speakers. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and promote the cultural identity and linguistic heritage of the Imazighen people, allowing for accurate representation of their language across computers and mobile devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D55 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Tifinagh Letter Yarr |
| Block | Tifinagh |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⵕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⵕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB5 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D55 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D55 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d55 |