U+048A "Ҋ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Short I with Tail Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+048A "Ҋ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Short I with Tail is a distinct letter used in certain Cyrillic alphabets, particularly for the Kildin Sami language, where it represents the voiced palatal approximant sound /j/ or a similar palatalized glide. It is formed by taking the standard Cyrillic letter Short I (Й) and adding a descender or tail to its bottom, visually distinguishing it from related characters. This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-A block in Unicode, serving as a specific typographic and orthographic solution for minority languages that require unique phonetic representation beyond the standard Russian Cyrillic set.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+048A |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Short I with Tail |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ҋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ҋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x048A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000048A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u048a |
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 | "ҋ" U+048B Cyrillic Small Letter Short I with Tail |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ҋ" U+048B Cyrillic Small Letter Short I with Tail |
| Simple Case Folding | "ҋ" U+048B Cyrillic Small Letter Short I with Tail |
| Case Folding | "ҋ" U+048B Cyrillic Small Letter Short I with Tail |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ҋ" U+048B Cyrillic Small Letter Short I with Tail |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ҋ" U+048B Cyrillic Small Letter Short I with Tail |
| 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 |