U+2C00 "Ⰰ" Glagolitic Capital Letter Azu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2C00 "Ⰰ" Glagolitic Capital Letter Azu is the first letter of the Glagolitic alphabet, an ancient Slavic script created in the 9th century by Saints Cyril and Methodius to translate Christian texts into Old Church Slavonic. This capital letter represents the sound /a/ and corresponds to the Greek letter alpha, serving as the foundational glyph from which the alphabet's name is derived. It is part of the Glagolitic block in Unicode and is contrasted with its lowercase form at U+2C30. While the script was largely replaced by the Cyrillic alphabet in most Slavic regions, the character remains historically significant for its role in early Slavic literacy and liturgical writings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2C00 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Glagolitic Capital Letter Azu |
| Block | Glagolitic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⰰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⰰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB0 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2C00 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002C00 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2c00 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ⰰ" U+2C30 Glagolitic Small Letter Azu |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⰰ" U+2C30 Glagolitic Small Letter Azu |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⰰ" U+2C30 Glagolitic Small Letter Azu |
| Case Folding | "ⰰ" U+2C30 Glagolitic Small Letter Azu |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⰰ" U+2C30 Glagolitic Small Letter Azu |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⰰ" U+2C30 Glagolitic Small Letter Azu |
| Script | Glagolitic |
| Script Extensions | Glagolitic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |