U+048B "ҋ" Cyrillic Small Letter Short I with Tail Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+048B "ҋ" Cyrillic Small Letter Short I with Tail is a variant of the Cyrillic letter Short I (Й, й), distinguished by the addition of a tail or descender on its lower right side, and it is primarily used in historical Church Slavonic orthography or in certain modern linguistic transcriptions to represent a specific palatalized or modified sound. This character, encoded in the Cyrillic Extended-B block, serves as a specialized glyph for philological and scholarly texts where precise phonetic or orthographic distinction is required, rather than appearing in standard contemporary Slavic alphabets. Its usage is rare and highly context-specific, often found in academic editions of old manuscripts or phonetic notations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+048B |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Short I with Tail |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ҋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ҋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x048B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000048B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u048b |
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 |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ҋ" U+048A Cyrillic Capital Letter Short I with Tail |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ҋ" U+048A Cyrillic Capital Letter Short I with Tail |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ҋ" U+048A Cyrillic Capital Letter Short I with Tail |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ҋ" U+048A Cyrillic Capital Letter Short I with Tail |
| 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 |