U+046D "ѭ" Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Big Yus Unicode Character

U+046D "ѭ" Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Big Yus is a historic Cyrillic letter that represents a nasalized vowel sound, specifically the iotated form of the Big Yus, which was used in Old Church Slavonic and early Slavic manuscripts. This character combines a preceding "i" or "y" glide with the nasalized "o" sound denoted by the Big Yus, and it was primarily employed to transcribe specific phonetic nuances in liturgical texts before the nasal vowels were lost in most modern Slavic languages. Today, ѭ is largely obsolete, but it remains of interest to scholars of historical linguistics, paleography, and Unicode typography for its role in documenting the phonological evolution of the Slavic language family.

General Properties

Code Point	U+046D
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Big Yus
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ѭ
HTML Hex Encoding	ѭ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD1 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x046D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000046D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u046d

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	"Ѭ" U+046C Cyrillic Capital Letter Iotified Big Yus
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ѭ" U+046C Cyrillic Capital Letter Iotified Big Yus
Uppercase Code Point	"Ѭ" U+046C Cyrillic Capital Letter Iotified Big Yus
Titlecase Code Point	"Ѭ" U+046C Cyrillic Capital Letter Iotified 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