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Yn

Archaic Cyrillic letter

Summary

Archaic Cyrillic letter

Field	Value
script	Cyrillic
type	Alphabet
typedesc	ic
name	Yn
image	Cyrillic letter Yn.svg
phonemes	, ,
letter	Ꙟ ꙟ
language	Romanian Cyrillic
unicode	U+A65E, U+A65F

Yn () is an archaic Cyrillic letter. It was an innovation entirely unique to the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, not appearing in any other Cyrillic alphabet. It was derived from the Cyrillic glyph big yus.

It was used in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, where it represented the sounds , , and at the beginning of words. In the modern Romanian alphabet it is replaced by , , or .

It was used interchangeably with big yus up until the years 1683-1688 when it began to only be used in word initial position.

Computing codes

|A65E|name1=Cyrillic Capital Letter Yn |A65F|name2=Cyrillic Small Letter Yn

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).

References

Romulus, Ionașcu. (1894). "Sistemele ortografice cu litere chirilice și latine în scrierea limbei române".
(9 January 2007). "Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS". [[Unicode Consortium]].

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