U+042F "Я" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ya Unicode Character
U+042F "Я" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ya is the uppercase version of the Cyrillic letter that represents the sound /ja/ or the vowel /a/ after a soft consonant, and it holds a unique place in the Russian alphabet as the last letter, often symbolizing the self in Russian culture, as it directly translates to the pronoun "I." Its form, resembling a mirror-image Latin "R," carries a distinct visual identity, and it is used across various Slavic and non-Slavic languages that employ the Cyrillic script, such as Bulgarian and Ukrainian, where it can have slight phonetic variations. In digital contexts, this character is part of the Cyrillic block in Unicode, with a UTF-8 encoding of D0 AF, and it is commonly employed in proper names, nouns, and verbs, adding a rich orthographic and phonetic dimension to written communication in these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+042F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Ya |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Ia |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Я |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Я |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD0 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x042F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000042F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u042f |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "я" U+044F Cyrillic Small Letter Ya |
| Lowercase Code Point | "я" U+044F Cyrillic Small Letter Ya |
| Simple Case Folding | "я" U+044F Cyrillic Small Letter Ya |
| Case Folding | "я" U+044F Cyrillic Small Letter Ya |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "я" U+044F Cyrillic Small Letter Ya |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "я" U+044F Cyrillic Small Letter Ya |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |