U+2C01 "Ⰱ" Glagolitic Capital Letter Buky Unicode Character

U+2C01 "Ⰱ" Glagolitic Capital Letter Buky is a glyph from the ancient Glagolitic script, which was created in the 9th century by Saints Cyril and Methodius to translate Christian texts into Old Church Slavonic. This capital letter corresponds to the sound "B" and is part of the uppercase set of the Glagolitic alphabet, used primarily for decorative or titular purposes in historical manuscripts. Its rounded and intricate design reflects the early medieval Slavic calligraphic tradition, and it appears in the Glagolitic Unicode block, which was added to support the study and digital preservation of this historic writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C01
Version Added	4.1
Name	Glagolitic Capital Letter Buky
Block	Glagolitic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⰱ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⰱ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB0 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C01
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C01
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c01

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	"ⰱ" U+2C31 Glagolitic Small Letter Buky
Lowercase Code Point	"ⰱ" U+2C31 Glagolitic Small Letter Buky
Simple Case Folding	"ⰱ" U+2C31 Glagolitic Small Letter Buky
Case Folding	"ⰱ" U+2C31 Glagolitic Small Letter Buky
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⰱ" U+2C31 Glagolitic Small Letter Buky
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⰱ" U+2C31 Glagolitic Small Letter Buky
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