U+2D60 "ⵠ" Tifinagh Letter Yav Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⵠ
U+2D60 "ⵠ" Tifinagh Letter Yav is a consonant glyph from the Tifinagh script, which is used to write the Berber (Amazigh) languages of North Africa, particularly in Morocco and Algeria. This letter represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound /v/, a phoneme that appears in some Berber dialects and loanwords, and it is part of the standardized Neo-Tifinagh alphabet adopted for official use in Morocco’s educational system since 2003. The character’s distinctive shape, featuring a vertical line with two short horizontal bars crossing its top, reflects the geometric and angular style typical of Tifinagh, an ancient script with origins dating back to the Libyco-Berber writing system of the first millennium BCE.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D60 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Tifinagh Letter Yav |
| Block | Tifinagh |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⵠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⵠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB5 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D60 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D60 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d60 |