Baṛī ye بَڑی يے
ے
ۓ‎
Usage
Writing system	Arabic abjad Urdu alphabet Shahmukhi (Punjabi) Saraiki alphabet Kashmiri alphabet Burushaski alphabet Khowar alphabet
Type	Abjad Alphabetic
Language of origin	Urdu
Phonetic usage	/eː/ /ɛː/ /eɪ/
Unicode codepoint	U+06D2
Alphabetical position	38
History
Development	ي ی ے
Time period	~1200 to present
Descendants	◌ެ [lower-alpha 1]
Sisters	ی ي ێ ې ۍ ئ ٸ ؠ ؾ ؿ
Transliteration equivalents	Ē Ai (digraph) Ei (digraph)
Variations	ۓ‎
Other
Writing direction	Right-to-left

Baṛī ye (Urdu: بَڑی يے, Urdu pronunciation: [ˈbəɽiː ˈjeː]; lit. "greater ye") is a letter in the Urdu alphabet (and other Indo-Iranian language alphabets based on it) directly based on the alternative "returned" variant of the final form of the Arabic letter ye/yāʾ (known as yāʾ mardūda) found in the Hijazi, Kufic, Thuluth, Naskh, and Nastaliq scripts.^[1] It functions as the word-final yā-'e-majhūl ([eː]) and yā-'e-sākin ([ɛː]).^[2] It is distinguished from the "choṭī ye (چھوٹی يے; "lesser ye")", which is the regular Perso-Arabic yāʾ (ی) used elsewhere. In Punjabi, where it is a part of the Shahmukhi alphabet, it is called waḍḍī ye (Punjabi: وَڈّی یے) with the Gurmukhi equivalent ਏ.

It is also used in the Pakistani Pashto alphabet, with the Afghani equivalent being ی.

Forms

Baṛī ye is written multiple ways depending on its position:

There are also medial (ـیـ) and initial (یـ) forms, but they are not encoded on Unicode and are generally represented by the regular ye.

In Balochi, baṛī ye has the forms ⟨ࢩـ ـࢩـ ـے ے⟩.

Diacritical variants

In Urdu, only the hamza can be applied to baṛī ye:

In Kashmiri, there is a letter that is visually a baṛī ye with a small v sign above, known as the nīmü yāyūk:

Character encoding

Notes

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