Yn

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Yn
Cyrillic letter Yn.svg
Usage
Writing system Cyrillic
Type Alphabetic
Sound values[ɨn], [ɨm], [ɨ]
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Yn ( ) 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]

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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
Unicode nameCYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YNCYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YN
Encodingsdecimalhexdechex
Unicode 42590U+A65E42591U+A65F
UTF-8 234 153 158EA 99 9E234 153 159EA 99 9F
Numeric character reference ꙞꙞꙟꙟ

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

References

  1. 1 2 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.