U+1E053 "𞁓" Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Ve Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1E053 "𞁓" Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Ve is a specialized typographic symbol belonging to the Cyrillic Extended-D block, encoded for representing the Cyrillic letter "ve" (which corresponds to the Latin "v" sound) in a smaller, subscript form. This character was added to the Unicode standard as part of a set designed to support historical and liturgical texts, particularly those used in Old Church Slavonic or early Cyrillic manuscripts where subscript letters appear as diacritic-like marks beneath other characters to indicate grammatical features or phonetic modifications. Its usage allows for accurate digital representation of these ancient writing conventions, ensuring that scholars and linguists can preserve and study the subtle nuances of medieval Cyrillic script without losing the original formatting intent of the scribes.

General Properties

Code Point U+1E053
Version Added 15.0
Name Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Ve
Block Cyrillic Extended-D
General Category Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Sub
Decomposition Mapping "в" U+0432 Cyrillic Small Letter Ve

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𞁓
HTML Hex Encoding 𞁓
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9E 0x81 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD838 0xDC53
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001E053
C/C++/Java Escape \ud838\udc53

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 "в" U+0432 Cyrillic Small Letter Ve
NFKC Simple Casefold "в" U+0432 Cyrillic Small Letter Ve
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