Y

Y ISO basic Laitin alphabet Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

Cursive script 'y' and capital 'Y' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style

Y (named wye /ˈwaɪ/, plural wyes) is the twinty-fift letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet (next tae last letter) an represents aither a vowel or a consonant in Inglis.

Name

In Latin, Y wis named Y Graeca "Greek Y". This wis pronoonced as I Graeca "Greek I", syne the classical Greek soond /y/, seemilar tae modren German ü or French u, wis nae a native soond for Latin speakers, an the letter wis ineetially anly uised tae spell foreign wirds. In Romance leids, this history haes led tae the staundart modren name o the letter: Spainyie i griega, French i grec, etc. Alternatively, the oreeginal Greek name upsilon haes an aa been adaptit intae several modren leids sic as German.

Auld Inglis borraeed Latin Y tae write the native Auld Inglis soond /y/ (previously written wi the rune yr ᚣ). The name o the letter mey be relatit tae 'ui' (or 'vi') in various medieval leids; in Middlin Inglis it wis 'wi' /wiː/, which throu the Great Vowel Shift acame the Modren Inglis 'wy' /waɪ/.

Relatit letters an ither similar characters

• Υ υ : Greek letter Upsilon
• У у : Cyrillic letter U
• Ү ү : Cyrillic letter Ue (Straicht U)
• Ы ы : Cyrillic letter Yery, commonly romanized as ⟨y⟩
• י : Hebrew letter yodh
• ¥ : a siller seembol

Computin codes

Character	Y		y
Unicode name	LATIN CAIPITAL LETTER Y		LATIN SMAA LETTER Y
Encodins	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	89	U+0059	121	U+0079
UTF-8	89	59	121	79
Numeric chairacter reference	Y	Y	y	y
EBCDIC faimily	232	E8	168	A8
ASCII 1	89	59	121	79

¹ An aa for encodings based on ASCII, includin the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 an Macintosh faimilies o encodins.

Ither representations

NATO phonetic	Morse code
Yankee	–·––

		[[File:Sign language {{{fingerspelling}}}.svg|90px]]
Seegnal banner	Banner semaphore	American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspellin)	Braille dots-13456

Freemit airtins

• Media relatit tae Y at Wikimedia Commons
• The dictionar defineetion o Y at Wiktionary
• The dictionar defineetion o y at Wiktionary

The ISO basic Laitin alphabet
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
Letter Y with diacritics
Ýý	Ỳỳ	Ŷŷ	Y̊ẙ	Ÿÿ	Ỹỹ	Ẏẏ	Ȳȳ	Ỷỷ	Ỵỵ	Ɏɏ	Ƴƴ	ʏ
Related
Derivations Diacritics History ISO/IEC 646 Leet o letters Numerals Palaeography Punctuation Unicode