U+0460 "Ѡ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Omega Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ѡ
U+0460 "Ѡ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Omega is a historic letter used primarily in Old Church Slavonic and early Cyrillic alphabets, where it represents the same sound as the letter O but with a distinct visual form derived from the Greek omega. Its usage declined over time as the Cyrillic script evolved, and it is no longer part of modern Slavic alphabets, though it may appear in ecclesiastical texts or as a stylistic glyph. The character is encoded in Unicode to support scholarly work, historical documents, and typographic needs related to ancient or liturgical Slavic writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0460 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Omega |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ѡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ѡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD1 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0460 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000460 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0460 |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ѡ" U+0461 Cyrillic Small Letter Omega |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ѡ" U+0461 Cyrillic Small Letter Omega |
| Simple Case Folding | "ѡ" U+0461 Cyrillic Small Letter Omega |
| Case Folding | "ѡ" U+0461 Cyrillic Small Letter Omega |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ѡ" U+0461 Cyrillic Small Letter Omega |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ѡ" U+0461 Cyrillic Small Letter Omega |
| 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 |