Name
In Latin, Y wis named Y Graeca "Greek Y". This wis pronoonced as I Graeca "Greek I", syne the classical Greek soond, seemilar tae modren German ü or French u, wis nae a native soond for Latin speakers, an the letter wis ineetially anly uised tae spell foreign wirds. In Romance leids, this history haes led tae the staundart modren name o the letter: Spainyie i griega, French i grec, etc. Alternatively, the oreeginal Greek name upsilon haes an aa been adaptit intae several modren leids sic as German.
Auld Inglis borraeed Latin Y tae write the native Auld Inglis soond (previously written wi the rune yr ᚣ). The name o the letter mey be relatit tae 'ui' (or 'vi') in various medieval leids; in Middlin Inglis it wis 'wi', which throu the Great Vowel Shift acame the Modren Inglis 'wy'.
Relatit letters an ither similar characters
- Υ υ: Greek letter Upsilon
- У у: Cyrillic letter U
- Ү ү: Cyrillic letter Ue (Straicht U)
- Ы ы: Cyrillic letter Yery, commonly romanized as ⟨y⟩
- י: Hebrew letter yodh
- ¥: a siller seembol
Computin codes
| Character | Y | y | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAIPITAL LETTER Y | LATIN SMAA LETTER Y | ||
| Encodins | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 89 | U+0059 | 121 | U+0079 |
| UTF-8 | 89 | 59 | 121 | 79 |
| Numeric chairacter reference | Y | Y | y | y |
| EBCDIC faimily | 232 | E8 | 168 | A8 |
| ASCII 1 | 89 | 59 | 121 | 79 |
- 1 An aa for encodings based on ASCII, includin the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 an Macintosh faimilies o encodins.
Ither representations
| NATO phonetic | Morse code |
| Yankee | –·–– |
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| Seegnal banner | Banner semaphore | American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspellin) | Braille dots-13456 |
Freemit airtins
- Media relatit tae Y at Wikimedia Commons
- The dictionar defineetion o Y at Wiktionary
- The dictionar defineetion o y at Wiktionary
