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U+02B8 · MODIFIER LETTER SMALL Y

Modifier Letter Small Y

  • CodepointU+02B8
  • NameMODIFIER LETTER SMALL Y
  • Decimal696
  • BlockSpacing Modifier Letters (U+02B0–U+02FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptLatin
  • CategoryLm — Modifier Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+02B8 (ʸ) is MODIFIER LETTER SMALL Y, a modifier letter in the Spacing Modifier Letters block. It belongs to the Latin script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a superscript form of U+0079 y (compatibility decomposition <super>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0079 y. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

How to type ʸ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8CA B82 bytes
UTF-1602B81 code unit
UTF-32000002B84 bytes
HTML decimal&#696;
HTML hex&#x2B8;
CSS\2B8in content: "…"
JavaScript\u02B8
JSON\u02B8
Python\u02B8
Python\N{MODIFIER LETTER SMALL Y}by name
Java / C#\u02B8
C / C++\u02B8universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2B8}
Go\u02B8
Ruby\u02B8
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(696)
URL-encoded%CA%B8percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0079 y
NFKDU+0079 y
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Nearby in Spacing Modifier Letters

All in block →
U+02B2ʲModifier Letter Small J U+02B3ʳModifier Letter Small R U+02B4ʴModifier Letter Small Turned R U+02B5ʵModifier Letter Small Turned R with Hook U+02B6ʶModifier Letter Small Capital Inverted R U+02B7ʷModifier Letter Small W U+02B9ʹModifier Letter Prime U+02BAʺModifier Letter Double Prime U+02BBʻModifier Letter Turned Comma U+02BCʼModifier Letter Apostrophe U+02BDʽModifier Letter Reversed Comma U+02BEʾModifier Letter Right Half Ring