Y with accents and marks: copy and paste

Accents and dots on Y

Acute, grave and circumflex

Ý and ý have an acute accent. Ỳ and ỳ have a grave accent. Ŷ and ŷ have a circumflex. Match the direction or shape of the mark rather than replacing one accented Y with another.

Two dots or a straight line

Ÿ and ÿ have a diaeresis, while Ȳ and ȳ have a macron. Both marks appear above the letter, but they identify different characters. Use the labels to confirm a faint mark in your source.

Other marked Y forms

Ẏ and ẏ have a dot above; Ỵ and ỵ have a dot below. The collection also includes ỹ with a tilde and ỷ with a hook above. Check whether the mark sits above or below before copying.

Select a character above and wait for the copy confirmation. Paste into your text with Ctrl + V on Windows, Command + V on Mac, or your phone’s Paste command. For a whole name or sentence, use the online accent keyboard. You can also browse all accent letters from A to Z.

ALT codes and typing help for y with an accent

Check the label before using a number from this table. ALT entries are Windows keypad shortcuts. A “Unicode decimal” entry identifies the character but is not a standard ALT shortcut. Use the copy button or the Word method for those forms.

How to type y with an accent on Windows

Using a numeric keypad

To enter ý, use Alt + 0253 with compatible Western Windows settings. Include the leading zero and check the result, since support depends on the app and system configuration.

• Place the cursor in your text and turn on Num Lock.
• Hold down the ALT key.
• Type 0253 on the numeric keypad, not the number row above the letters.
• Let go of ALT. The expected character is ý.

Type ý with Alt + X in Word

In Word for Windows, 00FD is the hexadecimal value for ý. Alt + X converts that value into the letter, without requiring a numeric keypad.

• Put your cursor at the insertion point in Word.
• Type 00FD, without the U+ prefix.
• Highlight only the code, then press ALT + X.
• Check that the code has become ý.

See Microsoft’s character-code instructions for details about code entry. For other characters, browse the ALT code directory.

On a Mac, phone, or tablet

On a Mac, try holding a letter key in an app that supports the accent menu. If the form you need is missing, copy it here and paste with Command + V. On a phone or tablet, select a character and use your destination app’s Paste command. See Apple’s accent guide for Mac options.

Unicode and HTML codes for accented y

Writing a message? Use the copy buttons. Working in code? This table identifies each character and lists its Unicode value alongside HTML, CSS and JavaScript representations. Choose the format your programming or markup context requires.