U+1E066 "𞁦" Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Yeru Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𞁦

U+1E066 "𞁦" Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Yeru is a specialized typographic symbol belonging to the Cyrillic Extended-D block, designed for use in historical and linguistic notation where subscript forms are needed. It represents a small, subscripted version of the Cyrillic letter Yeru, which itself is a historical digraph or ligature for a hard yer or back vowel sound. This character is not intended for general text but for academic contexts such as paleography, manuscript transcription, or detailed phonetic representation. Its introduction ensures that scholars can accurately encode subscript variants of Cyrillic letters that were previously unavailable in standard Unicode, preserving the fidelity of historical documents and linguistic analysis.

General Properties

Code Point U+1E066
Version Added 15.0
Name Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Yeru
Block Cyrillic Extended-D
General Category Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Sub
Decomposition Mapping "ы" U+044B Cyrillic Small Letter Yeru

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𞁦
HTML Hex Encoding 𞁦
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9E 0x81 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD838 0xDC66
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001E066
C/C++/Java Escape \ud838\udc66

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 "ы" U+044B Cyrillic Small Letter Yeru
NFKC Simple Casefold "ы" U+044B Cyrillic Small Letter Yeru
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