U+046B "ѫ" Cyrillic Small Letter Big Yus Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+046B "ѫ" Cyrillic Small Letter Big Yus is a historical Cyrillic letter that represents a nasalized back vowel, specifically the sound [ɔ̃] as it occurred in early Slavic languages. This letter is part of the Cyrillic block and is classified as an archaic or historic form, no longer used in modern standard Cyrillic alphabets. It corresponds to the uppercase version U+046A "Ѫ" and is primarily encountered in linguistic, historical, or paleographic contexts, such as in the study of Old Church Slavonic or medieval texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+046B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Big Yus |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ѫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ѫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD1 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x046B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000046B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u046b |
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 | "Ѫ" U+046A Cyrillic Capital Letter Big Yus |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ѫ" U+046A Cyrillic Capital Letter Big Yus |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ѫ" U+046A Cyrillic Capital Letter Big Yus |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ѫ" U+046A Cyrillic Capital Letter Big 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 |