U+0079 "y" Latin Small Letter Y Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+0079 "y" Latin Small Letter Y is a fundamental letter in the Latin alphabet, representing the lowercase version of the twenty fifth letter. It is part of the Basic Latin block, also known as ASCII, where it occupies the hexadecimal codepoint 0079. In English and many other languages, this character functions as both a consonant, as in "yes", and a vowel, as in "myth" or "gym". Its numeric value in the ASCII standard is 121 in decimal, and it is commonly used in computing, typography, and text encoding as a standard alphabetic symbol.
General Properties
Code Point
U+0079
Name
Latin Small Letter Y
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
y
HTML Hex Encoding
y
UTF-8 Encoding
0x79
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0079
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000079
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0079
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Uppercase Code Point
Simple Titlecase Code Point
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
Script Extensions
Latin