U+E0079 "" Tag Latin Small Letter Y Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+E0079 "" Tag Latin Small Letter Y is a special purpose formatting character belonging to the Tags block, used exclusively as part of a sequence of tag characters to represent language or other metadata in plain text. It was originally designed for use with the deprecated Unicode Tag Mechanism, which allowed encoding of language tags by combining invisible tag letters, with this specific character representing the lowercase letter Y. However, the intended mechanism was never widely adopted, and U+E0079 is now primarily a legacy character that is rarely implemented in modern software, often appearing as a placeholder or invisible glyph in systems that support the Tags block.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E0079 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Tag Latin Small 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 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDC79 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E0079 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udc79 |