U+046A "Ѫ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Big Yus Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+046A "Ѫ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Big Yus is a historic letter from the early Cyrillic alphabet, representing a nasalized back vowel that was used primarily in Old Church Slavonic and other early Slavic languages. This character, along with its lowercase counterpart (U+046B "ѫ"), was employed to denote a sound similar to the modern Polish "ą" or French "on", but it gradually fell out of use as the nasal vowels disappeared from most Slavic languages over the centuries. Today, "Big Yus" is rarely encountered outside of scholarly editions of medieval texts, linguistic studies, or specialized liturgical contexts, making it a notable relic of the phonetic diversity of early written Slavic.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+046A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Big Yus |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ѫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ѫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD1 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x046A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000046A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u046a |
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 | "ѫ" U+046B Cyrillic Small Letter Big Yus |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ѫ" U+046B Cyrillic Small Letter Big Yus |
| Simple Case Folding | "ѫ" U+046B Cyrillic Small Letter Big Yus |
| Case Folding | "ѫ" U+046B Cyrillic Small Letter Big Yus |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ѫ" U+046B Cyrillic Small Letter Big Yus |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ѫ" U+046B Cyrillic Small Letter Big 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 |