U+1E05F "𞁟" Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter U Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𞁟

U+1E05F "𞁟" Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter U is a relatively rare typographic symbol used in historical or specialized Cyrillic text, typically appearing as a small "у" (u) placed below the baseline to indicate a subscript form. It belongs to the Cyrillic Extended D block, a range of Unicode that includes various historical and phonetic characters from the Cyrillic script. This subscript character was likely employed in early printed or manuscript materials for abbreviations, mathematical notation, or linguistic transcription where a reduced or dependent vowel was needed. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that scholars and digital typographers can accurately represent these nuanced textual features without resorting to workarounds.

General Properties

Code Point U+1E05F
Version Added 15.0
Name Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter U
Block Cyrillic Extended-D
General Category Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Sub
Decomposition Mapping "у" U+0443 Cyrillic Small Letter U

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𞁟
HTML Hex Encoding 𞁟
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9E 0x81 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD838 0xDC5F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001E05F
C/C++/Java Escape \ud838\udc5f

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