yacute

yacute is the HTML character entity reference for the Latin small letter y with acute, commonly written as ý. In Unicode the character is U+00FD. The corresponding uppercase variant is Ý (U+00DD), and its HTML named reference is Ý.

In HTML and XML you can use ý to render ý, or use numeric references such as ý (decimal) or ý (hex). In UTF-8, ý is encoded as the two-byte sequence C3 BD; in ISO-8859-1 and Windows-1252 it appears as the single byte FD (253).

The letter ý is used in several languages, including Icelandic, Czech, and Slovak, where it represents specific vowel sounds. It often appears in loanwords, proper names, and diacritically marked text, contributing to accurate pronunciation and orthography in those languages.

Historically, yacute has been part of the standard set of HTML character entities and remains available in modern HTML5 as a named reference. It is one of many Latin-1 extended characters that facilitate correct rendering of diacritics in web documents without requiring direct use of Unicode code points.