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𛱐

duployan letter ye

Duployan Letter Ye

𛱐 is the Duployan letter Ye, a sign in shorthand where letters join. Émile Duployé published his French rapid-writing method in 1860; later versions served other languages. In 1890, missionary Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune adapted it as Chinuk pipa. By 1891, Indigenous writers in British Columbia used it for Chinook Jargon, a shared language for speakers of different languages, and Indigenous languages of the Salish family, in letters and religious texts.

Text symbol
Search it as
chinuk pipa · chinook shorthand · duployé stenography · ye shorthand
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𛱐 means

𛱐 is the duployan letter ye. Unicode classifies it as a letter and files it in the Duployan block; this site shelves it under Other writing systems.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𛱐 is a single code point, U+1BC50. In HTML that is 𛱐, and in CSS \1BC50.

Don't confuse it with

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𛰀
Duployan Letter H
shares “duployan”, “letter”
𛰁
Duployan Letter X
shares “duployan”, “letter”
𛰂
Duployan Letter P
shares “duployan”, “letter”
𛰃
Duployan Letter T
shares “duployan”, “letter”

Questions people ask

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Why does 𛱐 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type 𛱐

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1BC50, then Alt+X to get 𛱐.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “duployan letter ye”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1bc50, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𛱐
CSS
\1BC50
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𛱐
HTML hex
𛱐
CSS content
content: "\1BC50";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9B%B1%90
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Other writing systems815 symbols

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