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.
Key facts
- 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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- Image
- Cyrillic letter Yn.svg
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- Unicode character
- ꙟ
- Commons category
- Cyrillic Yn
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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 .