U+1E041 "𞁁" Modifier Letter Cyrillic Small U Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𞁁

U+1E041 "𞁁" Modifier Letter Cyrillic Small U is a typographical glyph belonging to the Cyrillic Extended-D block, designed to represent a superscript or modifier form of the Cyrillic small letter U, traditionally used in phonetic transcription or linguistic notation to indicate a reduced, fleeting, or altered articulation of the vowel sound. Its primary function is to modify the pronunciation of a preceding or following base character, often appearing in scholarly texts or dictionaries to denote a devoiced, centralized, or otherwise shortened version of the /u/ phoneme. As a combining-like modifier, it does not stand alone but attaches to other Cyrillic letters, enabling precise representation of phonetic variations in languages such as Slavic or Uralic languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+1E041
Version Added 15.0
Name Modifier Letter Cyrillic Small U
Block Cyrillic Extended-D
General Category Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Super
Decomposition Mapping "у" U+0443 Cyrillic Small Letter U

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𞁁
HTML Hex Encoding 𞁁
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9E 0x81 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD838 0xDC41
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001E041
C/C++/Java Escape \ud838\udc41

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 "у" U+0443 Cyrillic Small Letter U
NFKC Simple Casefold "у" U+0443 Cyrillic Small Letter U
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