U+1C87 "ᲇ" Cyrillic Small Letter Tall Yat Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᲇ
U+1C87 "ᲇ" Cyrillic Small Letter Tall Yat is a variant of the historical Cyrillic letter yat, distinguished by an elevated or tall form that was used in certain early printed and handwritten Slavic texts, particularly in Church Slavonic. It belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-C block and is classified as a lowercase letter with an uppercase counterpart at U+1C86, also known as Tall Yat. This character was added to the Unicode Standard to support the accurate digital representation of older orthographic traditions, where the tall variant often appeared in specific positions such as word initials or titles, helping scholars and typographers preserve the visual fidelity of historical documents without loss of typographic nuance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1C87 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Tall Yat |
| Block | Cyrillic Extended-C |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᲇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᲇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB2 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1C87 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001C87 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1c87 |