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See also: y, Ɏ, ¥, 丫, ㄚ, and Appendix:Variations of "y"

Y U+0059, Y
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y
← X
[U+0058] 		Basic Latin Z →
[U+005A]
Character variations
Ｙ U+FF39, Ｙ
FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y
← Ｘ
[U+FF38] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Ｚ →
[U+FF3A]
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Etymology

A late borrowing from the Ancient Greek letter Υ (U, “ypsilon”), first used to write Greek loanwords in Latin, derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤅 (w, “waw”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓏲. Doublet of U, V, and F.

Letter

Y (lower case y)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

Symbol

Y

  1. (chemistry) Chemical symbol for yttrium.
  2. (metrology) Symbol for prefix yotta-
  3. (genetics) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for any pyrimidine
  4. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for tyrosine
  5. (travel, aviation) The reservation booking designator for the highest level of economy air fare.
  6. (mathematics, computer science) A Fixed-point combinator; especially Haskell Curry's combinator defined as λ f.(λ x.f (x x)) (λx.f (x x))
  • Letter styles
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    Uppercase and lowercase versions of Y, in normal and italic type
  • Thumb
    Uppercase and lowercase Y in Fraktur

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Other representations of Y:

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Letter

Y (upper case, lower case y, plural Ys or Y's)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, called wye and written in the Latin script.
  2. Used for the Greek letter Υ (Y, “upsilon”).
See also

Noun

Y (plural Ys)

  1. A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y.
  2. A Y-shaped object, such as a railroad fork or a support for a telescope; a wye, a bifurcation.
  3. (lepidopterology) A moth of the genus Plusia, having markings resembling the letter Y.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Abbreviations.

Interjection

Y

  1. Abbreviation of yes.

Noun

Y (plural Ys)

  1. Abbreviation of year. (In some contexts as YY or YYYY to indicate only the last 2-digits or all 4-digits.)

Noun

Y

  1. (Stenoscript) Abbreviation of year.

Etymology 3

Clippings.

Proper noun

the Y

  1. (Canada, US) Clipping of the YMCA or YWCA.
    • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
      He had sat next to Cindy returning from the Y and smelled the chlorine on her. A sodden Band-Aid had clung by a few lingering bits of stickum to her knee.

Noun

Y (plural Ys)

  1. (Canada, US, informal) A particular facility run by the YMCA/YWCA.
    • 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN:
      Of course, the audience up here at the Bronx “Y” will probably be a little parochial, but if I make good in the lecture, I might one day end up speaking down at the Lex. Ave. “Y” where great thinkers like Norman Mailer and Seymour Krim are always airing their views.
    • 2021 May 17, Jane E. Brody, “A Birthday Milestone: Turning 80!”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      When a 50ish woman at my Y learned that I was about to turn 80, she exclaimed, “80 is the new 60, and you set a great example for the rest of us!”

Etymology 4

See IJ.

Proper noun

Y

  1. Obsolete form of IJ (“a lake (formerly a bay) adjoining the city of Amsterdam, Netherlands”).
    • 1813, William Müller, D. P., Topographical and Military Description of Germany and the Surrounding Country, 2nd edition, London: T. Egerton, pages 4–5:
      Amsterdam, Hol. fortif. on the gulf Y and the Amstel river, 27,000 ho. in the town, nearly as many in the suburbs; 210,000 inh. 1000 rp. 50,000 lm. 6000 sailors; well built, many canals, ground very damp and marshy, very clean streets, […]

Afar

Letter

Y

  1. The twenty-second and final letter in the Afar alphabet.

See also

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /əɪ̯/

Letter

Y (upper case, lower case y)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Afrikaans alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Noun

Y (plural Y's, diminutive Y'tjie)

  1. Y

Azerbaijani

Letter

Y upper case (lower case y)

  1. The thirty-first letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /i ɡreko/, [i ɣ̞re̞.ko̞]

Letter

Y (upper case, lower case y)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Basque alphabet, called i greko and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

See also

Catalan

Pronunciation

Letter

Y (upper case, lower case y)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Catalan alphabet, called i grega and written in the Latin script.

See also

Central Franconian

Pronunciation

  • /i/, (German-based also) /y/, /yː/

Letter

Y

  1. A letter in the German-based alphabet of Central Franconian.
  2. A letter in the Dutch-based alphabet of Central Franconian.

Usage notes

  • Only used rarely in loanwords, respectively after the German or Dutch cognate.

Chinese

Pronunciation 1

Note: Often realised as one syllable.
Note: Often realised as one syllable.

Letter

Y

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation 2

Letter

Y

  1. The twenty-fifth letter used in Pinyin.
Usage notes
  • 《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard pronunciation for each letter. However, these pronunciations are rarely used in education; another pronunciation is commonly used instead.
  • The pronunciation above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).

Dutch

Pronunciation

Letter

Y (capital, lowercase y)

  1. the twenty-fifth letter of the Dutch alphabet

See also

  • Previous letter: X
  • Next letter: Z

Finnish

Etymology

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and Y for information on the development of the glyph itself. In particular, the use of ⟨y⟩ for /y/ follows the Swedish orthography, which in turn follows Latin.

Letter

Y (upper case, lower case y)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called yy and written in the Latin script.

Derived terms

compounds

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Hungarian

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Ido

Irish

Italian

Kankanaey

Kashubian

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Polish

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