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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

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s contain the appropriate
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s, the Upwards Arrow (↑) is sometimes substituted. The notable fonts that have included this glyph are
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and
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(since
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).


See also

*Cyrillic characters in Unicode


References

{{Reflist Cyrillic letters