Yn () is an archaic
Cyrillic
, bg, кирилица , mk, кирилица , russian: кириллица , sr, ћирилица, uk, кирилиця
, fam1 = Egyptian hieroglyphs
, fam2 = Proto-Sinaitic
, fam3 = Phoenician
, fam4 = G ...
letter. It looks like the
Cyrillic letter Psi (Ѱ ѱ) turned upside down.
It was used in the
Romanian Cyrillic alphabet
Romanian may refer to:
*anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania
**Romanians, an ethnic group
**Romanian language
Romanian (obsolete spellings: Rumanian or Roumanian; autonym: ''limba română'' , or ''românește ...
, where it represented the sounds , , and at the beginning of words.
[http://unicode.org/L2/L2007/07003-n3194-cyrillic.pdf] In the modern
Romanian alphabet
The Romanian alphabet is a variant of the Latin alphabet used for writing the Romanian language. It is a modification of the classical Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet is the collection of letters originally used b ...
it is replaced by , , or .
Computing codes
* As few
font
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In mod ...
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
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(since
Windows 8
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).
See also
*
Cyrillic characters in Unicode
As of Unicode version 15.0 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+A ...
References
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Cyrillic letters