U+1E052 "𞁒" Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Be Unicode Character

U+1E052 "𞁒" Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Be is a specialized glyph included in the Cyrillic Extended-D block, designed as a subscript form of the Cyrillic letter "Be" (б). It serves as a typographic variant intended for phonetic transcription or linguistic notation, where a smaller, lowered version of the letter is needed to alter its baseline position without changing its core shape. This character allows precise representation of reduced or secondary phonetic elements in scholarly texts, particularly in Slavic linguistics and historical language documentation. Its encoding in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across platforms, supporting detailed academic work that relies on subscript notation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E052
Version Added	15.0
Name	Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Be
Block	Cyrillic Extended-D
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Sub
Decomposition Mapping	"б" U+0431 Cyrillic Small Letter Be

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞁒
HTML Hex Encoding	𞁒
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0x81 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD838 0xDC52
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E052
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud838\udc52

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	"б" U+0431 Cyrillic Small Letter Be
NFKC Simple Casefold	"б" U+0431 Cyrillic Small Letter Be
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