Unicode Character "Ÿ" (U+0178)

The character Ÿ (Latin Capital Letter Y With Diaeresis) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+0178. It is encoded in the Latin Extended-A block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as Ÿ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Latin Capital Letter Y With Diaeresis
Unicode Codepoint U+0178
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Latin Extended-A
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Character Case

Case Uppercase
Lowercase character ÿ (U+00FF)

Other Unicode Data

Category Uppercase Letter
Script Latin
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+0178 Conversion

HTML (decimal) Ÿ
HTML (hex) Ÿ
HTML (named) Ÿ
URL Escape Code %C5%B8
CSS \000178
JavaScript, JSON \u0178
C, C++, Java \u0178
Python \u0178
Rust \u{0178}
Ruby \u0178

How to type "Ÿ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 1 7 8. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 1 7 8. Release Alt.

Preview

  • Ÿ
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • Ÿ
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • Ÿ
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC5 0xB8
UTF-16 (hex) 0x0178
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00000178

References