U+0059 Latin Capital Letter Y
U+0059 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Basic Latin in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its lowercase variant is Latin Small Letter Y.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is narrow. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0059 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 37 other glyphs.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Y, or y, is the twenty-fifth and penultimate letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. According to some authorities, it is the sixth (or seventh if including W) vowel letter of the English alphabet. Its name in English is wye (pronounced ), plural wyes.
In the English writing system, it mostly represents a vowel and seldom a consonant, and in other orthographies it may represent a vowel or a consonant.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 89 |
| UTF-8 | 59 |
| UTF-16 | 00 59 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 00 59 |
| URL-Quoted | %59 |
| HTML hex reference | Y |
| Encoding: ASCII (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP437 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP720 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP737 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP775 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP850 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP852 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP855 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP856 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP857 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP858 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP860 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP861 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP862 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP863 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP864 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP865 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP866 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP869 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP874 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP1006 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP1026 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP1125 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP1250 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP1251 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP1252 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP1253 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP1254 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP1257 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: LATIN_1 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_2 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_3 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_4 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_5 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_6 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_7 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_9 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_10 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_11 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_13 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_14 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_15 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_16 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: KOI8_R (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: KOI8_T (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: KOI8_U (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: KZ1048 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: MAC_CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: MAC_GREEK (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: MAC_LATIN2 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: PTCP154 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 59 |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP1025 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP1047 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP1097 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP1112 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP1122 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP1123 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP1141 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP1142 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP1143 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP1144 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP1145 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP1146 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP1147 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP1148 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP1148MS (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP1149 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP277 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP278 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP280 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP284 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP285 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP297 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP420 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP500MS (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP833 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP838 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP870 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP871 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| AGL: Latin-1 | Y |
| AGL: Latin-2 | Y |
| AGL: Latin-3 | Y |
| AGL: Latin-4 | Y |
| AGL: Latin-5 | Y |
| Adobe Glyph List | Y |
| digraph | Y |
Related Characters
- Latin Small Letter Y
- Latin Capital Letter Y with Acute
- Latin Capital Letter Y with Circumflex
- Latin Capital Letter Y with Diaeresis
- Latin Capital Letter Y with Macron
- Latin Capital Letter Y with Dot Above
- Latin Small Letter Y with Ring Above
- Latin Capital Letter Y with Grave
- Latin Capital Letter Y with Dot Below
- Latin Capital Letter Y with Hook Above
- Latin Capital Letter Y with Tilde
- Circled Latin Capital Letter Y
- Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter Y
- Outlined Latin Capital Letter Y
- Mathematical Bold Capital Y
- Mathematical Italic Capital Y
- Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Y
- Mathematical Script Capital Y
- Mathematical Bold Script Capital Y
- Mathematical Fraktur Capital Y
- Mathematical Double-Struck Capital Y
- Mathematical Bold Fraktur Capital Y
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Capital Y
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital Y
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Capital Y
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Capital Y
- Mathematical Monospace Capital Y
- Parenthesized Latin Capital Letter Y
- Squared Latin Capital Letter Y
Confusables
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y | |
| — | |
| Basic Latin | |
| Uppercase Letter | |
| Latin | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Latin Capital Letter Y | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Small Letter Y | |
| Latin Small Letter Y | |
| ✔ | |
| Latin Capital Letter Y | |
| Latin Capital Letter Y | |
| Latin Capital Letter Y | |
| Latin Capital Letter Y | |
| Latin Small Letter Y | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Capital Letter Y | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter Y | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter Y | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Upper | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Capital Letter Y | |
| None | |
| narrow | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Latin Small Letter Y | |
| R |