U+028E Latin Small Letter Turned Y
U+028E was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+028E forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The voiced palatal lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʎ⟩, a rotated lowercase letter ⟨y⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is
L.Many languages that were previously thought to have a palatal lateral approximant actually have a lateral approximant that is, broadly, alveolo-palatal; that is to say, it is articulated at a place in-between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate (excluded), and it may be variously described as alveolo-palatal, lamino-postalveolar, or postalveolo-prepalatal. None of the 13 languages investigated by Recasens (2013), many of them Romance, has a 'true' palatal. That is likely the case for several other languages listed here. Some languages, like Portuguese and Catalan, have a lateral approximant that varies between alveolar and alveolo-palatal.
There is no dedicated symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the alveolo-palatal lateral approximant. If precision is desired, it may be transcribed ⟨l̠ʲ⟩ or ⟨ʎ̟⟩; they are essentially equivalent because the contact includes both the blade and body (but not the tip) of the tongue. There is also a non-IPA letter U+0234 ȴ LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH CURL; ⟨ȴ⟩ ("l", plus the curl found in the symbols for alveolo-palatal sibilant fricatives ⟨ɕ, ʑ⟩) is used especially in Sinological circles.
The voiced palatal lateral approximant contrasts phonemically with its voiceless counterpart /ʎ̥/ in the Xumi language spoken in China.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 654 |
| UTF-8 | CA 8E |
| UTF-16 | 02 8E |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 02 8E |
| URL-Quoted | %CA%8E |
| HTML hex reference | ʎ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ÊŽ |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | AA F8 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | AA F8 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 B1 37 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 51 2A 78 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 4F 2A 78 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 85 F6 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 85 F6 |
| LATEX | \Elztrny |
| AGL: Latin-5 | uni028E |
| Adobe Glyph List | yturned |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 1.1 (1993) | |
| LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED Y | |
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| IPA Extensions | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Latin | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
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| ✔︎ | |
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| ✘︎ | |
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| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
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| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
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| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
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| ✘︎ | |
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| Any | |
| ✔︎ | |
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| ✘︎ | |
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| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
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| Yes | |
| Yes | |
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| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
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| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
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| not a number | |
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