Yn
Encyclopedia
Yn is an archaic Cyrillic
letter. It looks like the Cyrillic letter Psi
turned upside down.
It was used in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet
, where it represented the sound [ɨn] or [ɨm]. In the modern Romanian alphabet
it is replaced by ⟨în⟩ or ⟨ân⟩ (or ⟨îm⟩, ⟨âm⟩).
As few font
s contain the appropriate glyph
s, the Upwards Arrow (↑) is sometimes substituted.
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...
letter. It looks like the Cyrillic letter Psi
Psi (Cyrillic)
Psi is a letter in the early Cyrillic alphabet, derived from the Greek letter psi . It represents the sound /ps/, as in English naps...
turned upside down.
It was used in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet
Romanian Cyrillic alphabet
The Romanian Cyrillic alphabet was used to write the Romanian language before 1860–1862, when it was officially replaced by a Latin-based Romanian alphabet. Cyrillic remained in occasional use until circa 1920...
, where it represented the sound [ɨn] or [ɨm]. In the modern Romanian alphabet
Romanian alphabet
The Romanian alphabet is a modification of the Latin alphabet and consists of 31 letters:The letters Q , W , and Y were officially introduced in the Romanian alphabet in 1982, although they had been used earlier...
it is replaced by ⟨în⟩ or ⟨ân⟩ (or ⟨îm⟩, ⟨âm⟩).
Computing codes
| character | ||||
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YN | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YN | ||
| character encoding | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems... |
42590 | A65E | 42591 | A65F |
| UTF-8 UTF-8 UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks... |
234 153 158 | EA 99 9E | 234 153 159 | EA 99 9F |
| Numeric character reference Numeric character reference A numeric character reference is a common markup construct used in SGML and other SGML-related markup languages such as HTML and XML. It consists of a short sequence of characters that, in turn, represent a single character from the Universal Character Set of Unicode... |
Ꙟ | Ꙟ | ꙟ | ꙟ |
As few font
Computer font
A computer font is an electronic data file containing a set of glyphs, characters, or symbols such as dingbats. Although the term font first referred to a set of metal type sorts in one style and size, since the 1990s it is generally used to refer to a scalable set of digital shapes that may be...
s contain the appropriate glyph
Glyph
A glyph is an element of writing: an individual mark on a written medium that contributes to the meaning of what is written. A glyph is made up of one or more graphemes....
s, the Upwards Arrow (↑) is sometimes substituted.