U+AB5A "ꭚ" Latin Small Letter Y with Short Right Leg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AB5A "ꭚ" Latin Small Letter Y with Short Right Leg is a specialized typographic character within the Latin Extended E block, designed for use in certain phonetic or orthographic transcription systems, particularly those requiring a variant of the letter Y where the right descender or leg is shortened. Its distinct shape, a lowercase y with a noticeably abbreviated right stroke, helps differentiate it from standard glyphs in contexts where precise distinction between similar characters is needed. This character supports academic and linguistic documentation, appearing in texts that demand exact representation of sounds or scripts, though it is not common in everyday writing. It exemplifies Unicode's effort to encode rare and historically significant letterforms for digital preservation and scholarly accuracy.

General Properties

Code Point U+AB5A
Version Added 7.0
Name Latin Small Letter Y with Short Right Leg
Block Latin Extended-E
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꭚ
HTML Hex Encoding ꭚ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xAD 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAB5A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AB5A
C/C++/Java Escape \uab5a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Lowercase Yes
Cased Yes
Script Latin
Script Extensions Latin
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break Lower