U+0474 "Ѵ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Izhitsa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0474 "Ѵ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Izhitsa is a historic letter from the early Cyrillic alphabet, derived from the Greek letter upsilon. It was traditionally used in Church Slavonic to represent the sound /i/ or /v/, often in words of Greek origin such as "Ѵpѡдръ" for "hypodrъ" or "Ѵстїнъ" for "Justin". Its usage gradually declined after the Russian orthographic reform of 1918, which simplified the alphabet by removing several letters, including the Izhitsa, making it a rare character in modern text. Today, it appears primarily in liturgical and scholarly contexts, preserving a link to the historical development of Slavic writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0474 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Izhitsa |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ѵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ѵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD1 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0474 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000474 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0474 |
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 | "ѵ" U+0475 Cyrillic Small Letter Izhitsa |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ѵ" U+0475 Cyrillic Small Letter Izhitsa |
| Simple Case Folding | "ѵ" U+0475 Cyrillic Small Letter Izhitsa |
| Case Folding | "ѵ" U+0475 Cyrillic Small Letter Izhitsa |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ѵ" U+0475 Cyrillic Small Letter Izhitsa |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ѵ" U+0475 Cyrillic Small Letter Izhitsa |
| 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 |