# Old English Letter Y

> The Old English (Fraktur) letter Y: copyable forms, how it is built and what it is confused with.

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| Form | Character | Code point |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fraktur capital | 𝔜 | U+1D51C |
| Fraktur lowercase | 𝔶 | U+1D536 |
| Bold Fraktur capital | 𝖄 | U+1D584 |
| Bold Fraktur lowercase | 𝖞 | U+1D59E |

## How the Old English Y is built

Capital Y has a looped left arm and a descender that drops below the baseline. The lowercase y is a minim with a long descending tail.

## Easily confused with

Lowercase y and lowercase h share descenders in some designs. The h starts with a tall ascender.

## Where people use it

Y is used for names like Yolanda and phrases such as Young Forever.

## Example words

- Yolanda: 𝖄𝖔𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖆
- Young Forever: 𝖄𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖌 𝕱𝖔𝖗𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗
- Yours: 𝖄𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖘
- Yankee: 𝖄𝖆𝖓𝖐𝖊𝖊
- Y.B.: 𝖄.𝕭.

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