Accents on the letter Y
The variants of the letter Y collected here carry a diacritical mark added to the base y: an accent, a diaeresis, a caron, a cedilla or a stroke. Each is a distinct Unicode character with its own code point — so y and its variants do not always sort together, and a search for plain y will not find them. The pages below give each variant's code, its HTML entities and how to type it on each system.
This page gathers 3 characters, from ý (U+00FD) to ŷ (U+0177).
Click a character to open its reference page: you will find its code point, its HTML entities, its CSS, JavaScript and Python escape sequences, and how to type it on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Character list
Reference table
The 3 characters on this page, with their code point, HTML entity and the shortcut to use on each system.
| Character | Name | Code point | Named HTML entity | Windows | macOS | Linux |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ý | Y with acute accent | U+00FD |
ý |
Alt + 253 |
— |
Ctrl + ⇧ + U, 00FD |
| ÿ | Y with diaeresis | U+00FF |
ÿ |
Alt + 255 |
— |
Ctrl + ⇧ + U, 00FF |
| ŷ | Y with circumflex | U+0177 |
ŷ |
0177 + Alt + X |
— |
Ctrl + ⇧ + U, 0177 |
Keyboards that carry these characters
Rather than memorising a code, type these characters directly on one of these layouts: