Yn (Ꙟ ꙟ) is an archaic Cyrillic letter. It looks like the Cyrillic letter Psi (Ѱ ѱ) with its upper half turned upside down, but the letter mostly looks like an arrow pointing vertically up (↑).
It was used in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, where it represented the sounds [ɨn], [ɨm], and [ɨ] at the beginning of words. [1] In the modern Romanian alphabet it is replaced by ⟨în⟩, ⟨îm⟩, or ⟨î⟩.
| 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).
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