U+2D58 "ⵘ" Tifinagh Letter Ayer Yagh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⵘ
U+2D58 "ⵘ" Tifinagh Letter Ayer Yagh is a symbol from the Tifinagh script, which is used to write the Tuareg languages, particularly the Ayer dialect of Niger. This character represents a voiced uvular fricative consonant sound, similar to the French or German "r" pronounced at the back of the throat, and is part of the Neo-Tifinagh alphabet that is increasingly utilized in modern Berber language education and digital communication. The letter's inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and promote the cultural heritage of the Tuareg people by enabling its use in electronic texts and software.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D58 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Tifinagh Letter Ayer Yagh |
| Block | Tifinagh |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⵘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⵘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB5 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D58 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D58 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d58 |