LATIN SMALL LETTER Y character

LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
U+0079
121
y
y
Ll (Lowercase Letter)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Basic Latin
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
y












LATIN SMALL LETTER Y is a lowercase letter from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of LATIN SMALL LETTER Y is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Lowercase Letter (Ll) refers to characters that are lowercase in a bicameral script. These include lowercase letters in scripts like Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and others. Lowercase letters are typically used for most of the text in a language that has case distinction.

This character belongs to the Basic Latin block. The Basic Latin block, also known as the ASCII block, is foundational in computing and text processing. It includes the standard English alphabet (both uppercase and lowercase), Arabic numerals (0-9), and essential punctuation marks like periods, commas, and parentheses. ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, was developed in the 1960s and remains a cornerstone of text encoding. This block is indispensable for programming, data interchange, and everyday digital communication, forming the basis for many other Unicode blocks..