Unicode Character "y" U+0079 Latin Small Letter Y
Unicode Version 15.1
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Summary
The unicode character "y" at code point U+0079 is Latin Small Letter Y. It is a character in the Basic Latin block and is part of the Latin script. The character is a lowercase letter. The UTF-8 encoding of "y" is 0x79 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x0079.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0079 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Y |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | y |
| HTML Hex Encoding | y |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0x79 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0079 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000079 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0079 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Narrow |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Y" U+0059 Latin Capital Letter Y |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Y" U+0059 Latin Capital Letter Y |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Y" U+0059 Latin Capital Letter Y |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Y" U+0059 Latin Capital Letter Y |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Lower |