U+1E059 "𞁙" Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter I Unicode Character

U+1E059 "𞁙" Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter I is a specialized grapheme within the Cyrillic script, designed for use in historical and linguistic texts where a subscript form of the Cyrillic letter "И" is required. It belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-D block, which supports scholarly notations for older Slavic manuscripts and phonetic transcriptions. This character is typically employed to denote a reduced or semi-vowel sound or to represent a specific phonological feature in reconstructed pronunciations, making it a valuable tool for paleographers and linguists studying the evolution of Cyrillic writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E059
Version Added	15.0
Name	Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter I
Block	Cyrillic Extended-D
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Sub
Decomposition Mapping	"и" U+0438 Cyrillic Small Letter I

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞁙
HTML Hex Encoding	𞁙
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0x81 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD838 0xDC59
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E059
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud838\udc59

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	"и" U+0438 Cyrillic Small Letter I
NFKC Simple Casefold	"и" U+0438 Cyrillic Small Letter I
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