U+0465 "ѥ" Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified E Unicode Character

U+0465 "ѥ" Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified E is a historical Cyrillic letter used predominantly in Old Church Slavonic and early Slavic manuscripts to represent a vowel sound that combined an initial "y" or "i" glide with the "e" vowel, typically corresponding to the sound of "ye" or "ie" in modern Slavic languages. It is the lowercase form of U+0464, and its usage declined after the orthographic reforms of the 17th and 18th centuries, being largely replaced by other letters such as "Е" with a preceding "Й" in Russian and related alphabets. This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-A block and is of interest to linguists and scholars studying the phonological evolution of early Slavic writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0465
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified E
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ѥ
HTML Hex Encoding	ѥ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD1 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0465
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000465
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0465

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ѥ" U+0464 Cyrillic Capital Letter Iotified E
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ѥ" U+0464 Cyrillic Capital Letter Iotified E
Uppercase Code Point	"Ѥ" U+0464 Cyrillic Capital Letter Iotified E
Titlecase Code Point	"Ѥ" U+0464 Cyrillic Capital Letter Iotified E
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