Modifier Letter Small Y

Group: Letterlike

Keywords

letterlike

About this character

Modifier Letter Small Y belongs to the Letterlike group and is encoded at U+02B8. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+02B8
Hex: 02B8
Decimal: 696
HTML: ʸ
CSS: \2B8
JavaScript: \u02B8
Python: \u02B8
UTF-8: CA B8

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Account Of U+2100
Addressed To The Subject U+2101
Double-Struck Capital C U+2102
Degree Celsius U+2103
Centre Line Symbol U+2104
Care Of U+2105
Cada Una U+2106
Euler Constant U+2107
Scruple U+2108
Degree Fahrenheit U+2109
Script Small G U+210A
Script Capital H U+210B
Black-Letter Capital H U+210C
Double-Struck Capital H U+210D
Planck Constant U+210E
Planck Constant Over Two Pi U+210F
Script Capital I U+2110
Black-Letter Capital I U+2111
Script Capital L U+2112
Script Small L U+2113
L B Bar Symbol U+2114
Double-Struck Capital N U+2115
Numero Sign U+2116
Sound Recording Copyright U+2117

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.