Yn

For other uses, see Yn (disambiguation).

Yn
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	[ɨn], [ɨm], [ɨ]
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Yn (Ꙟ ꙟ) is an archaic Cyrillic letter. It was an innovation entirely unique to the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, not appearing in any other Cyrillic alphabet. It was derived from the Cyrillic glyph big yus. ^[1]

It was used in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, where it represented the sounds [ɨn], [ɨm], and [ɨ] at the beginning of words. ^[2] In the modern Romanian alphabet it is replaced by ⟨în⟩, ⟨îm⟩, or ⟨î⟩.

It was used interchangeably with big yus up until the years 1683-1688 when it began to only be used in word initial position. ^[1]

Computing codes

Character information

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).

See also

• Cyrillic script in Unicode

References

1. Romulus, Ionașcu (1894). Sistemele ortografice cu litere chirilice și latine în scrierea limbei române[The orthographical systems of Romanian writing in Cyrillic and Latin letters] (in Romanian). p. 12.
2. "Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS" (PDF). Unicode Consortium. 9 January 2007.