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Usage | |
Writing system | Cyrillic |
Type | Alphabetic |
Sound values | [ɨn], [ɨm], [ɨ] |
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]
Preview | Ꙟ | ꙟ | ||
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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).