Yn
Archaic Cyrillic letter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yn (Ꙟ ꙟ) is an archaic Cyrillic letter. It looks like the Cyrillic letter Psi (Ѱ ѱ) with its upper half turned upside down, but the letter mostly looks like an arrow pointing vertically up (↑).
| Yn | |
|---|---|
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | [ɨn], [ɨm], [ɨ] |
It was used in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, where it represented the sounds [ɨn], [ɨm], and [ɨ] at the beginning of words.[1] In the modern Romanian alphabet it is replaced by ⟨în⟩, ⟨îm⟩, or ⟨î⟩.
Computing codes
| Preview | Ꙟ | ꙟ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YN | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YN | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 42590 | U+A65E | 42591 | U+A65F |
| UTF-8 | 234 153 158 | EA 99 9E | 234 153 159 | EA 99 9F |
| Numeric character reference | Ꙟ | Ꙟ | ꙟ | ꙟ |
As few fonts contain the appropriate glyphs, the Upwards Arrow (↑) is sometimes substituted. The notable fonts that have included this glyph are FreeSerif and Segoe UI (since Windows 8).
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