U+044F "я" Cyrillic Small Letter Ya Unicode Character

U+044F "я" Cyrillic Small Letter Ya is the thirty third and final letter of the Russian alphabet, and it represents the IPA sound /ja/ or the palatalized vowel /a/ after a soft consonant. Its shape resembles a mirrored Latin letter "R" but functions as a vowel in Cyrillic script, often used in the first person singular pronoun "я" meaning "I" in Russian. Historically, it derives from the Old Cyrillic letter "Ѧ" (small yus), and in digital contexts, it belongs to the Cyrillic block in Unicode, making it essential for typing, displaying, and processing modern Russian and various other Slavic languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+044F
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Ya
Unicode 1.0 Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Ia
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	я
HTML Hex Encoding	я
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD1 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x044F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000044F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u044f

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Я" U+042F Cyrillic Capital Letter Ya
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Я" U+042F Cyrillic Capital Letter Ya
Uppercase Code Point	"Я" U+042F Cyrillic Capital Letter Ya
Titlecase Code Point	"Я" U+042F Cyrillic Capital Letter Ya
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower