Yn_(Cyrillic)

Yn

Yn

Archaic Cyrillic letter


Yn ( ) is an archaic Cyrillic letter. It looks like the Cyrillic letter Psi ѱ) with its upper half turned upside down, but the letter mostly looks like an arrow pointing vertically up (↑).

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It was used in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, where it represented the sounds [ɨn], [ɨm], and [ɨ] at the beginning of words.[1] In the modern Romanian alphabet it is replaced by în, îm, or î.

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As few fonts contain the appropriate glyphs, the Upwards Arrow (↑) is sometimes substituted. The notable fonts that have included this glyph are FreeSerif and Segoe UI (since Windows 8).

See also


References

  1. "Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS" (PDF). Unicode Consortium. 9 January 2007.

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