U+0472 "Ѳ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Fita Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ѳ
U+0472 "Ѳ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Fita is a historical letter used in the early Cyrillic alphabet, primarily in Old Church Slavonic and pre-reform Russian orthography. It was derived from the Greek letter theta (Θ, θ) and represented the voiceless dental fricative sound /θ/, similar to the "th" in the English word "think." In practice, its pronunciation in Slavic languages often merged with the sound of the letter "Ф" (f), leading to confusion in writing. The letter was officially abolished in Russian during the orthographic reform of 1918, being replaced by the letter "Ф" in most cases, though it is still encountered in liturgical texts and historical documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0472 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Fita |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ѳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ѳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD1 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0472 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000472 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0472 |
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 | "ѳ" U+0473 Cyrillic Small Letter Fita |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ѳ" U+0473 Cyrillic Small Letter Fita |
| Simple Case Folding | "ѳ" U+0473 Cyrillic Small Letter Fita |
| Case Folding | "ѳ" U+0473 Cyrillic Small Letter Fita |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ѳ" U+0473 Cyrillic Small Letter Fita |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ѳ" U+0473 Cyrillic Small Letter Fita |
| 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 |