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Letter

1. The twenty-fifth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

1. a close front compressed vowel: the German and Chinese ü-sound.
2. the English y-sound, IPA [j].
3. [y]-coloring, a [y] on- or off-glide (diphthong), or a weak, fleeting, epenthetic or echo [y].
4. palatalization, equivalent to IPA [ʲ].
5. Denoting an item that is twenty-fifth in a list.

Letter

1. The twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, called wy or wye and written in the Latin script.

Noun

1. Abbreviation of year.
2. Abbreviation of youth, usually followed by an age appropriate for the content so marked.
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Adverb

1. Abbreviation of why.

Particle

1. Abbreviation of yes.

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