Yn () is an archaic
Cyrillic
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Ea ...
letter. It was an innovation entirely unique to the
Romanian Cyrillic alphabet
The Romanian Cyrillic alphabet is the Cyrillic alphabet that was used to write the Romanian language and Church Slavonic until the 1830s, when it began to be gradually replaced by a Latin-based Romanian alphabet.Cyrillic remained in occasion ...
, not appearing in any other
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Easte ...
. It was derived from the Cyrillic glyph
big yus
Little yus (Ѧ, ѧ; italics: ) and big yus (Ѫ, ѫ; italics: ''Ѫ, ѫ''), or jus, are letters of the Cyrillic, Cyrillic script representing two Proto-Slavic, Common Slavonic nasal vowels in the early Cyrillic alphabet, early Cy ...
.
It was used in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, where it represented the sounds , , and at the beginning of words.
In the modern
Romanian alphabet
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it is replaced by , , or .
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
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font
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s contain the appropriate
glyph
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s, the Upwards Arrow (↑) is sometimes substituted. The notable fonts that have included this glyph are
FreeSerif
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and
Segoe UI (since
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).
See also
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Cyrillic script in Unicode
As of Unicode version , Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks:
* CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters
* Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0–U+2DFF 32 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-BU+A64 ...
References
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Cyrillic letters