U+E0079 "" Tag Latin Small Letter Y Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
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
Name
Tag Latin Small Letter Y
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
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common