U+2D65 "ⵥ" Tifinagh Letter Yazz Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⵥ
U+2D65 "ⵥ" Tifinagh Letter Yazz is a grapheme from the Tifinagh script, which is used to write the Berber languages of North Africa, particularly Tamazight. This letter represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative sound, similar to the "ayn" in Arabic, and is commonly transliterated as a "y" or "ɣ" in Latin alphabets. It belongs to the Neo-Tifinagh alphabet, which gained official status in Morocco in 2003 alongside Arabic and French, and is often found in inscriptions, educational materials, and digital texts promoting Amazigh cultural identity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D65 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Tifinagh Letter Yazz |
| Block | Tifinagh |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⵥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⵥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB5 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D65 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D65 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d65 |