Y (disambiguation)

Last updated October 20, 2024

Y , or y, is the twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet.

Places

Y, Alaska, US
Y, Somme, France
Y (river), a river in northern Russia
Postal code Y indicating Yukon (see List of Y postal codes of Canada)

Art, entertainment, and media

Comics

Y: The Last Man , a DC comics series by Brian K. Vaughan

Film and television

Y (2017 film), a Malayalam film directed by Sunil Ibrahim
Y (2022 film), an Indian Marathi-language thriller film
Y, the production code for the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Celestial Toymaker
Y?, An educational children's science program shown on the Nine Network in Australia
Y: The Last Man (TV series), an American drama based on the comic book series Y: The Last Man

Games

Y (game), a board game played on a triangular board
Pokémon Y , a video game for the Nintendo 3DS

Literature

Y (novel), a 2012 novel by Marjorie Celona
"Y", a poem by Patti Smith from her book Early Work (1994)
"Y" Is for Yesterday , the twenty-fifth and final novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet mystery" series, published in 2017

Music

Albums

Y (EP), a single album by MBLAQ
Y (The Pop Group album), an album by The Pop Group
Y. (Bebe album), an album by Spanish singer Bebe
Y, a repackaged edition of I, by Jaejoong
01011001 (binary number for 'Y' in ASCII), an album by Dutch progressive metal project Ayreon

Songs

"y", a 2010 song by iamamiwhoami from the album bounty
"Y..." a track on Belanova's Cocktail
"Y", a 1961 song composed by Mario de Jesús Báez which has been covered by several artists including Luis Miguel on the album Vivo (2000)
"Y", a 2021 song by Citizen Queen

Economics and finance

¥, the symbol for Japanese yen
Y, the symbol for income

Enterprises and brands

Alleghany Corporation, NYSE ticker symbol Y
Brigham Young University, commonly known throughout the Mormon Corridor as "the Y" (as its rival, the University of Utah, is known as "the U")
Y Combinator (company), American seed brand
Y-Front a trademark for briefs by Jockey International, used in Britain as a synonym of briefs
YM-YWHA, aka "the Y"
YMCA, aka "the Y"
YWCA, aka "the Y"

Language

Y (Cyrillic)
y (IPA), the International Phonetic Alphabet letter for a close front rounded vowel

Mathematics

Y combinator, a fixed-point combinator in combinatory logic
Y, the Bessel function
Y, dependent variable
Y or y, vertical axis in the Cartesian coordinate system

Science

Y, admittance, the inverse of electrical impedance Z
Haplogroup Y (mtDNA)
Hyperon
Luminance (video), in many video color models, such as YIQ and YUV
Tyrosine, abbreviated Y or Tyr
Y boson
Y chromosome
y, year, a non-SI abbreviation for this unit of time
Yellow, in the CMYK color model
y, yocto-, the SI prefix for 10⁻²⁴
Y, yotta-, the SI prefix for 10²⁴
Yttrium, symbol Y, a chemical element
Y, a hypothetical stellar class of ultra-cool dwarf stars

Transportation and travel

Y (New York City Subway service), an unused New York City Subway service label
Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line, a subway service operated by the Tokyo Metro, labeled
Yotsubashi Line, a subway service operated by the Osaka Metro, labeled
Basque Y, a Spanish high-speed rail network so called for its Y shape
Y, code for economy class
Yaesu Route of Shuto Expressway in Tokyo, Japan, numbered as Route Y
, the official West Japan Railway Company service symbol for the Kure Line.

Other uses

Ⓨ, a typographical symbol in Japanese resale price maintenance
Generation Y
Ms Y (or just "Y"), a refugee to Ireland involved in Irish court cases concerning abortion in the 2010s
Y-shape, the shape that resembles the letter Y
Y-stations, World War 2 listening stations
Yankee, the military time zone code for UTC−12:00
Aion Y, a Chinese electric SUV

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