Latin Capital Letter Y
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 89 on the numeric keypad to insert latin capital letter y.
- Alt code
- Alt+89
- HTML entity
- Y
- Unicode
- U+0059
About this symbol
Y comes from the Greek upsilon. The Romans borrowed it only to write Greek words, and placed it near the end of the alphabet with Z, the other borrowed letter.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Uppercase Latin alphabet
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.