U+1E030 "𞀰" Modifier Letter Cyrillic Small A Unicode Character

U+1E030 "𞀰" Modifier Letter Cyrillic Small A is a diacritic or modifier letter used in the extended Cyrillic script, specifically designed to represent a reduced or modified form of the Cyrillic small letter a for phonetic transcription purposes. It belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-D block and is typically employed in scholarly or linguistic contexts to denote a superscript or secondary articulation, such as a palatalization or a shortened vowel sound, without altering the base character's inherent value. This character helps precision in documenting certain Slavic or non Slavic languages that require nuanced phonetic notation beyond standard Cyrillic letters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E030
Version Added	15.0
Name	Modifier Letter Cyrillic Small A
Block	Cyrillic Extended-D
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"а" U+0430 Cyrillic Small Letter A

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞀰
HTML Hex Encoding	𞀰
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0x80 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD838 0xDC30
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E030
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud838\udc30

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Other Lowercase	Yes
Case Ignorable	Yes
Cased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"а" U+0430 Cyrillic Small Letter A
NFKC Simple Casefold	"а" U+0430 Cyrillic Small Letter A
Script	Cyrillic
Script Extensions	Cyrillic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Diacritic	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower