Latin Small Letter Y
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 121 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter y.
- Alt code
- Alt+121
- HTML entity
- y
- Unicode
- U+0079
About this symbol
The y in “Ye Olde Tea Shoppe” is really the old English letter thorn, þ, for th. Early printers working with type from the Continent had no thorn, so they used y, which looked like it in handwriting, and ye was read as the.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Lowercase 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.