ẏ is the Unicode character LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DOT ABOVE, code point U+1E8F (decimal 7823) in the Latin Extended Additional block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ẏ, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E1 BA 8F.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+1E8F |
| Decimal | 7823 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E1 BA 8F |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 1E8F |
| UTF-32 | 00001E8F |
| HTML decimal | ẏ |
| HTML hex | ẏ |
| CSS | \1E8F |
| JavaScript | \u1E8F |
| JSON | \u1E8F |
| Python | \u1E8F |
| Python by name | \N{LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DOT ABOVE} |
| Java, C# | \u1E8F |
| Rust, Swift | \u{1E8F} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u1E8F |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E1%BA%8F |
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 | LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DOT ABOVE |
| Code point | U+1E8F (decimal 7823) |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional (U+1E00–U+1EFF) |
| General category | Ll: Lowercase letter |
| Script | Latin |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Decomposition
LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DOT ABOVE is canonically equivalent to the sequence below. Normalising text to NFD splits it into these parts; NFC joins them back into U+1E8F. Search and comparison should normalise first, or the two spellings will not match.
Upper and lower case
- Ẏ U+1E8E Latin Capital Letter Y With Dot Above — Uppercase
Nearby in Latin Extended Additional
- ẇ U+1E87 Latin Small Letter W With Dot Above
- Ẉ U+1E88 Latin Capital Letter W With Dot Below
- ẉ U+1E89 Latin Small Letter W With Dot Below
- Ẋ U+1E8A Latin Capital Letter X With Dot Above
- ẋ U+1E8B Latin Small Letter X With Dot Above
- Ẍ U+1E8C Latin Capital Letter X With Diaeresis
- ẍ U+1E8D Latin Small Letter X With Diaeresis
- Ẏ U+1E8E Latin Capital Letter Y With Dot Above
- Ẑ U+1E90 Latin Capital Letter Z With Circumflex
- ẑ U+1E91 Latin Small Letter Z With Circumflex
- Ẓ U+1E92 Latin Capital Letter Z With Dot Below
- ẓ U+1E93 Latin Small Letter Z With Dot Below
- Ẕ U+1E94 Latin Capital Letter Z With Line Below
- ẕ U+1E95 Latin Small Letter Z With Line Below
- ẖ U+1E96 Latin Small Letter H With Line Below
- ẗ U+1E97 Latin Small Letter T With Diaeresis
All 256 characters: Latin Extended Additional.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ẏ?
- Use ẏ (decimal) or ẏ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+1E8F?
- E1 BA 8F (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E1%BA%8F.
- How do I write U+1E8F in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u1E8F. Python: \u1E8F.
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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