ى

See also: ی [U+06CC ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH], ي [U+064A ARABIC LETTER YEH], ې [U+06D0 ARABIC LETTER E], ۍ [U+06CD ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH TAIL], ۓ [U+06D3 ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE WITH HAMZA ABOVE], and ئ [U+0626 ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE]

ى	U+0649, ى ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA

← و
[U+0648]

Arabic

ي →
[U+064A]

ﻯ	U+FEEF, ﻯ ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA ISOLATED FORM

← ﻮ
[U+FEEE]

Arabic Presentation Forms-B

ﻰ →
[U+FEF0]

ﻰ	U+FEF0, ﻰ ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA FINAL FORM

← ﻯ
[U+FEEF]

Arabic Presentation Forms-B

ﻱ →
[U+FEF1]

ﯨ	U+FBE8, ﯨ ARABIC LETTER UIGHUR KAZAKH KIRGHIZ ALEF MAKSURA INITIAL FORM

← ﯧ
[U+FBE7]

Arabic Presentation Forms-A

ﯩ →
[U+FBE9]

ﯩ	U+FBE9, ﯩ ARABIC LETTER UIGHUR KAZAKH KIRGHIZ ALEF MAKSURA MEDIAL FORM

← ﯨ
[U+FBE8]

Arabic Presentation Forms-A

ﯪ →
[U+FBEA]

Arabic

Alternative forms

Also the final or isolated form of ي in the Nile Valley, when typed on electronic devices, which looks similar in shape to the Persian ی in its final or isolated form.

Etymology 1

Letter

ى • (-ā)

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
ى	ـى	ـىـ	ىـ

Only written in the final position, transliterated ā. Also called أَلِف لَيِّنَة (ʔalif layyina, “flexible alif”). In the rare case of a rasm version of Quran, it is the yāʾ version.
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 19:30:
  قَالَ إِنِّی عَبۡدُ ٱللَّهِ ءَاتَىٰنِیَ ٱلۡكِتَـٰبَ وَجَعَلَنِی نَبِیࣰّا
  Jesus declared, “I am truly a servant of Allah. He has destined me to be given the Scripture and to be a prophet.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Semitic *-ay-.

Suffix

ـَى or ـَا • (-ā or -ā)

Used to form feminine adjectives.
دُنْيَا (dunyā)

قُصْوَى (quṣwā)

مَلْأَى (malʔā)

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic	ى
Cyrillic	Ы, ы/І, і
Latin	Y, y/ı, ı
Yañalif	Ь, ь/J, j (, /J, j)

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /ja/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /ə/ (back)
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /ɘ/, /i/ (front)

Letter

ى • (ı, i)

The twenty-eighth letter of the Kazakh in Arabic Script. It represents the Cyrillic letter Ы or І.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
ى	ـى	ـىـ	ىـ

Usage notes

Represents the back vowel phoneme /ə/, unless a small ء (hamza) was placed in the beginning of the word. In Kazakh the Hamza marks that all vowels in the following word are fronted. If ى is the initial letter of a word and is representing a front vowel, it is combined with the hamza and the variant ٸ is used.

Malay

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

ى

Wikipedia ^ms

Pronunciation

(Name of letter) IPA^(key): [jə]
(Phoneme, Opened ultima only) IPA^(key): [ə]

Letter

ى / ـى

The thirty-fifth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

Uyghur

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /i/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /i/, /ɪ/, /ɯ/

Letter

ى • (i)

The thirtieth letter of the Uyghur alphabet.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
ى	ـى	ـىـ	ىـ

Usage notes

UYY - ULY: I i
USY: И и