Yn
| Yn | |
|---|---|
| Ꙟ ꙟ | |
 | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Romanian Cyrillic |
| Sound values | [ɨn], [ɨm], [ɨ] |
| In Unicode | U+A65E, U+A65F |
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
[edit]| 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
[edit]References
[edit]- 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.
- ↑ "Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS" (PDF). Unicode Consortium. 9 January 2007.
