U+E0059 "" Tag Latin Capital Letter Y Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+E0059 "" Tag Latin Capital Letter Y is a special use character belonging to the Tags block, which was originally intended for an invisible text-tagging system but is now deprecated and not recommended for general interchange. This character does not represent a visible letter; instead, it was designed to serve as a language tag component, marking text as associated with a specific language or context when combined with other tag characters. In modern practice, the use of these tag characters is largely obsolete, and they are generally ignored or rendered as invisible by compliant systems, meaning they will not appear as a typical letter Y in text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E0059 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Tag Latin Capital Letter Y |
| Block | Tags |
| General Category | Format |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Boundary Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠁙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠁙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x81 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDC59 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E0059 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udc59 |