Latin Small Letter Y With Diaeresis
Part of Accented Latin Letters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0255 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter y with diaeresis.
- Alt code
- Alt+0255
- HTML entity
- ÿ
- Unicode
- U+00FF
About this symbol
Ÿ is rare in French, appearing in a few place names such as L’Haÿ-les-Roses, near Paris. The Latin-1 character set included the small ÿ but no capital, so Microsoft’s Windows-1252 added Ÿ in one of the spare positions.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Lowercase letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- French, medieval Hungarian orthography
- Uppercase is 0178
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