U+0467 "ѧ" Cyrillic Small Letter Little Yus Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0467 "ѧ" Cyrillic Small Letter Little Yus is a historical Cyrillic letter used primarily in Old Church Slavonic to represent a nasalized front vowel, likely pronounced like the modern Polish "ę" as in the word "ręka." This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block and has a corresponding uppercase form, U+0466 "Ѧ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Little Yus. In modern times, "Little Yus" is largely obsolete in standard Slavic languages, such as Russian or Bulgarian, but it appears in scholarly texts, historical manuscripts, and liturgical writings from the medieval Slavic period.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0467 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Little Yus |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ѧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ѧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD1 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0467 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000467 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0467 |
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 | "Ѧ" U+0466 Cyrillic Capital Letter Little Yus |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ѧ" U+0466 Cyrillic Capital Letter Little Yus |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ѧ" U+0466 Cyrillic Capital Letter Little Yus |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ѧ" U+0466 Cyrillic Capital Letter Little Yus |
| 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 |