U+1E028 "𞀨" Combining Glagolitic Letter Big Yus Unicode Character

U+1E028 "𞀨" Combining Glagolitic Letter Big Yus is a diacritical mark used in the Glagolitic script, one of the oldest known Slavic alphabets, to modify the pronunciation of a base letter by indicating a nasalized "u" or "o" sound, specifically representing the "big yus" vowel (Ѫ ѫ in Cyrillic). This combining character is designed to attach to another Glagolitic letter, appearing above or attached to it in a composite glyph, and it belongs to the Glagolitic Supplement block, which was added to Unicode to support medieval Slavic texts and liturgical manuscripts. Its usage is primarily historical, found in early Slavic religious writings from regions like Moravia and the Balkans, where the Glagolitic script was employed before the widespread adoption of Cyrillic.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E028
Version Added	9.0
Name	Combining Glagolitic Letter Big Yus
Block	Glagolitic Supplement
General Category	Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class	Above
Bidirectional Class	Nonspacing Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞀨
HTML Hex Encoding	𞀨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0x80 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD838 0xDC28
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E028
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud838\udc28

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Joining Type	Transparent
Line Break	Combining Mark
Case Ignorable	Yes
Script	Glagolitic
Script Extensions	Glagolitic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Indic Conjunct Break	Extend
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Other Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Extend	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Extend
Word Break	Extend
Sentence Break	Extend