U+046C "Ѭ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Iotified Big Yus Unicode Character
U+046C "Ѭ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Iotified Big Yus is a historical and rarely used glyph from the Early Cyrillic alphabet, representing a nasalized vowel sound that was iotified, meaning it was preceded by a "y" glide. This letter is part of the extended Cyrillic block and corresponds to the sound typically transcribed as /jɛ̃/ or similar nasalized front vowels in Old Church Slavonic. It appears primarily in medieval manuscripts and scholarly transliterations, as the Big Yus letters including this iotified form fell out of use in modern Cyrillic scripts, replaced by simpler vowel combinations. The character is distinct from its lowercase counterpart U+046D and other Yus variants, preserving the orthographic legacy of Slavic linguistic history.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+046C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Iotified Big Yus |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ѭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ѭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD1 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x046C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000046C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u046c |
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 | "ѭ" U+046D Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Big Yus |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ѭ" U+046D Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Big Yus |
| Simple Case Folding | "ѭ" U+046D Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Big Yus |
| Case Folding | "ѭ" U+046D Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Big Yus |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ѭ" U+046D Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Big Yus |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ѭ" U+046D Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified 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 |