Unicode Character "ｙ" (U+FF59)

The character ｙ (Fullwidth Latin Small Letter Y) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FF59. It is encoded in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ｙ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Fullwidth Latin Small Letter Y
Unicode Codepoint U+FF59
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

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

Character Case

Case Lowercase
Uppercase character Ｙ (U+FF39)

Other Unicode Data

Category Lowercase Letter
Script Latin
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+FF59 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ｙ
HTML (hex) ｙ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BD%99
CSS \00FF59
JavaScript, JSON \uFF59
C, C++, Java \uFF59
Python \uFF59
Rust \u{FF59}
Ruby \uFF59

How to type "ｙ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type F F 5 9. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type F F 5 9. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBD 0x99
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFF59
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FF59

References