name. In Aymara, Indonesian/Malaysian, Turkish, Quechua and the romanization of Japanese, ⟨y⟩ is always a palatal consonant, denoting , as in English. In Malagasy, the letter represents the final variation of . In Turkmen, represents . In Washo, lower-case represents a typical wye sound, while upper-case represents a voiceless wye sound, a bit like the consonant in English hue. Other systems In the International Phonetic Alphabet, corresponds to the close front rounded vowel, and the related character corresponds to the near-close near-front rounded vowel. The SI prefix for 1024 is yotta, abbreviated by the letter Y. Related characters Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet Y with diacritics: Ý ý Ỳ ỳ Ŷ ŷ Ÿ ÿ Ỹ ỹ Ẏ ẏ Ỵ ỵ ẙ Ỷ ỷ Ȳ ȳ Ɏ ɏ Ƴ ƴ and are used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) IPA superscript letters: 𐞠 𐞲 𐞡 𝼆 : Small letter turned y with belt is an extension to IPA for disordered speech (extIPA) is used in the Teuthonista phonetic transcription system ʸ is used for phonetic transcription Ỿ ỿ : Y with loop is used by some Welsh medievalists to indicate the schwa sound of Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets 𐤅: Semitic letter Waw, from which the following symbols originally derive Υ υ : Greek letter Upsilon, from which Y derives : Coptic letter epsilon/he (not to be confused with the unrelated Greek letter Ε ε called epsilon) 𐌖 : Old Italic U/V, which is the ancestor of modern Latin V and U : Gothic letter /, which is transliterated as w У у : Cyrillic letter U, which derives from Greek upsilon via the digraph omicron-upsilon used to represent the sound /u/ Ѵ ѵ : Cyrillic letter izhitsa, which derives from Greek upsilon and represents the sounds /i/ or /v/. This letter is archaic in the modern writing systems of the living Slavic languages, but it is still used in the writing system of the Slavic liturgical language Church Slavonic. Ү ү : Cyrillic letter Ue (or straight U) Ұ ұ : Kazakh Short U Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations ¥ : Yen sign ⓨ : In Japan, ⓨ is a symbol used for resale price maintenance. Computing codes On the standard US/UK keyboard Y is the sixth letter of the top row; On the QWERTZ keyboard used in Central Europe it is replaced there by Z,