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Capital Y with Diaeresis HTML entity Ÿ
Ÿ is the HTML entity for Capital Y with Diaeresis Ÿ (U+0178). Copy Ÿ, Ÿ and the CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
Ÿ- Code point
- U+0178
- Unicode name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
- Block
- Latin Extended-A
- Category
- Uppercase letter (Lu)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML 4.01 and HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | ŸWorks in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | ŸWorks in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | ŸWorks in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\178";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u0178"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u0178"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %C5%B8Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | C5 B82 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 01781 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
Ÿ writes U+0178 (Capital Y with Diaeresis), a capital letter from the Unicode Latin Extended-A block, encoded since Unicode 1.1. On a page saved as UTF-8 the letter can simply be typed; the entity helps in ASCII-only templates and code samples.
The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.
More latin letters with accents
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).