Yn

Yn
Ꙟ ꙟ
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic
Language of originRomanian Cyrillic
Sound values[ɨn], [ɨm], [ɨ]
In UnicodeU+A65E, U+A65F
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Yn (Ꙟ ꙟ; italics: Ꙟ ꙟ or Ꙟ ꙟ; italics: 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.

It was used in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, where it represented the sounds [ɨn], [ɨm], and [ɨ] at the beginning of words. In the 19th century, it was replaced in the Romanian alphabet 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.

Computing codes

Character information
PreviewꙞꙟ
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YN CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YN
Encodingsdecimalhexdechex
Unicode42590U+A65E42591U+A65F
UTF-8234 153 158EA 99 9E234 153 159EA 99 9F
Numeric character referenceꙞꙞꙟꙟ

The Upwards Arrow (↑) is sometimes substituted on an ad hoc basis when font support is not available.

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.