U+0466 "Ѧ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Little Yus Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ѧ
U+0466 "Ѧ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Little Yus is a historical letter from the early Cyrillic alphabet, representing a nasalized front vowel sound, specifically the nasalized [ę] that partially survives in modern Polish as the letter "ę". It was once used in Old Church Slavonic and other early Slavic writing systems before the nasal vowels were largely denasalized in most East and South Slavic languages. In Unicode, it is part of the Cyrillic Extended-A block, and its lowercase form is "ѧ" (U+0467). This character is rarely used in contemporary texts outside of scholarly or liturgical contexts, but it remains an important symbol for linguists and historians studying the development of the Cyrillic script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0466 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Little Yus |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ѧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ѧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD1 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0466 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000466 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0466 |
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 | "ѧ" U+0467 Cyrillic Small Letter Little Yus |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ѧ" U+0467 Cyrillic Small Letter Little Yus |
| Simple Case Folding | "ѧ" U+0467 Cyrillic Small Letter Little Yus |
| Case Folding | "ѧ" U+0467 Cyrillic Small Letter Little Yus |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ѧ" U+0467 Cyrillic Small Letter Little Yus |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ѧ" U+0467 Cyrillic Small Letter Little Yus |
| 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 |