य़ is the Unicode character DEVANAGARI LETTER YYA, code point U+095F (decimal 2399) in the Devanagari block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write य़, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E0 A5 9F.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+095F |
| Decimal | 2399 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E0 A5 9F |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 095F |
| UTF-32 | 0000095F |
| HTML decimal | य़ |
| HTML hex | य़ |
| CSS | \95F |
| JavaScript | \u095F |
| JSON | \u095F |
| Python | \u095F |
| Python by name | \N{DEVANAGARI LETTER YYA} |
| Java, C# | \u095F |
| Rust, Swift | \u{95F} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u095F |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E0%A5%9F |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | DEVANAGARI LETTER YYA |
| Code point | U+095F (decimal 2399) |
| Block | Devanagari (U+0900–U+097F) |
| General category | Lo: Other letter |
| Script | Devanagari |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Decomposition
DEVANAGARI LETTER YYA is canonically equivalent to the sequence below. Normalising text to NFD splits it into these parts; NFC joins them back into U+095F. Search and comparison should normalise first, or the two spellings will not match.
Nearby in Devanagari
- U+0957 Devanagari Vowel Sign Uue
- क़ U+0958 Devanagari Letter Qa
- ख़ U+0959 Devanagari Letter Khha
- ग़ U+095A Devanagari Letter Ghha
- ज़ U+095B Devanagari Letter Za
- ड़ U+095C Devanagari Letter Dddha
- ढ़ U+095D Devanagari Letter Rha
- फ़ U+095E Devanagari Letter Fa
- ॠ U+0960 Devanagari Letter Vocalic Rr
- ॡ U+0961 Devanagari Letter Vocalic Ll
- U+0962 Devanagari Vowel Sign Vocalic L
- U+0963 Devanagari Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll
- । U+0964 Devanagari Danda
- ॥ U+0965 Devanagari Double Danda
- ० U+0966 Devanagari Digit Zero
- १ U+0967 Devanagari Digit One
All 128 characters: Devanagari.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for य़?
- Use य़ (decimal) or य़ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+095F?
- E0 A5 9F (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E0%A5%9F.
- How do I write U+095F in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u095F. Python: \u095F.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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