Y

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Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Homophones 1.1 Other Forms 1.2 See Also 2 French 2.1 Letter 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Indirect object pronoun 3 Spanish 3.1 Letter 3.2 Pronunciation 3.3 Conjunction 4 Translingual

English

"y" /wAI/ (English)

1. Twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet.
2. Twenty-fifth in a list. (Synonyms: 25, XXV)
3. (Chemistry) Symbol for yttrium.
4. Abbreviation for year. (See Y2K)
5. (TV) Abbreviation for youth content, usually proceeded with a suggested age. (E.g. Y7)
6. (Archaic computers) Abbreviation for yes.
7. Informal abbreviation for why.

Homophones

• why
• WI
• WY

Other Forms

• With acute: ý
• With diaeresis: ÿ
• With circumflex: ŷ
• With hook: ƴ
• With macron: ȳ
• With dot above: ẏ
• With ring above: ẙ
• With grave: ỳ
• With dto below: ỵ
• With hook above: ỷ
• With tilde: ỹ

See Also

• U
• V
• Υ (upsilon)
• У
• ¥ (yen)

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French

Letter

• i-grec /igrEk/

Pronunciation

• /i/

Indirect object pronoun

y

1. contraction of à le or à la

   il y a, there is

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Spanish

Letter

• i-griega /iGrjeGa/

Pronunciation

• y /i/

Conjunction

1. and

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Translingual

Y

1. (Chemistry) Symbol for yttrium.

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