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Also known as Yn

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.

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

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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 .

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