What य़ means
Use Shift + / on InScript; Keyman uses y, backtick, y.
Windows Devanagari-InScript assigns य़ to Shift + /; Keyman Common Devanagari uses y, then the backtick key, then y. These mappings were checked on 2026-09-05.
If neither layout is available, enter य and the nukta as separate keystrokes.
What does य़ mean?
It is a marked letter whose sound depends on the spelling system.
Devanagari uses a nukta—a small mark under a letter—to write consonants beyond its unmarked set. य़ is a marked form of य, formed with a nukta.
One reference records य़ with a breathy y sound in Eastern Magar and the ordinary y sound in Old Nepalese texts. The same visible letter may be stored as य़ or as two characters, य followed by a nukta; Unicode normalization, a text-cleanup process, does not combine that pair back into one.
Is य़ used in Hindi?
A 2009 Hindi keyboard discussion called it uncommon.
The participant recommended using the nukta only when a spelling needs it. The dot belongs to the spelling, not to visual styling.
A specialist spelling choice: the dot belongs to the writing system, not to visual styling.
Do not add the dot for style; it changes the spelling.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does य़ appear as two characters?
It can. Unicode treats य़ and य followed by a nukta as equivalent, but excludes that pair from recomposition, so normalized text can keep two code points.
How to type य़
य़\095FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.