U+046E "Ѯ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ksi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+046E "Ѯ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ksi is a historical letter from the early Cyrillic alphabet, originating from the Greek letter Xi and used primarily in Old Church Slavonic to represent the sound sequence /ks/. It was employed in writing before the graphemes for the Cyrillic alphabet were reformed and standardized, and it is no longer found in modern Cyrillic alphabets such as those used for Russian, Ukrainian, or Bulgarian, surviving today only in scholarly and ecclesiastical texts for the study of medieval Slavic manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+046E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Ksi |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ѯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ѯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD1 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x046E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000046E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u046e |
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 | "ѯ" U+046F Cyrillic Small Letter Ksi |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ѯ" U+046F Cyrillic Small Letter Ksi |
| Simple Case Folding | "ѯ" U+046F Cyrillic Small Letter Ksi |
| Case Folding | "ѯ" U+046F Cyrillic Small Letter Ksi |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ѯ" U+046F Cyrillic Small Letter Ksi |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ѯ" U+046F Cyrillic Small Letter Ksi |
| 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 |