U+0477 "ѷ" Cyrillic Small Letter Izhitsa with Double Grave Accent Unicode Character
U+0477 "ѷ" Cyrillic Small Letter Izhitsa with Double Grave Accent is a variant of the Cyrillic letter izhitsa, historically used in Church Slavonic to represent the sound /i/ or /v/, depending on context, and primarily appears in liturgical texts where the double grave accent indicates a specific tone or stress pattern. This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block and is rarely used in modern languages, surviving mainly in scholarly editions of Old Church Slavonic manuscripts or religious publications. Its design combines the base letter izhitsa with a double grave diacritic, distinguishing it from related characters like the izhitsa with kendema or ordinary izhitsa, and it serves as a typographical relic of detailed phonetic notation in ancient Slavic writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0477 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Izhitsa with Double Grave Accent |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Izhitsa Double Grave |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ѵ" U+0475 Cyrillic Small Letter Izhitsa "̏" U+030F Combining Double Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ѷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ѷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD1 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0477 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000477 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0477 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ѷ" U+0476 Cyrillic Capital Letter Izhitsa with Double Grave Accent |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ѷ" U+0476 Cyrillic Capital Letter Izhitsa with Double Grave Accent |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ѷ" U+0476 Cyrillic Capital Letter Izhitsa with Double Grave Accent |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ѷ" U+0476 Cyrillic Capital Letter Izhitsa with Double Grave Accent |
| 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 |