U+2C09 "Ⰹ" Glagolitic Capital Letter Izhe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ⰹ
U+2C09 "Ⰹ" Glagolitic Capital Letter Izhe is a letter from the Glagolitic script, an ancient Slavic alphabet created in the 9th century by Saints Cyril and Methodius for translating Christian texts into Old Church Slavonic. This capital letter represents the vowel sound /i/ or /ji/, analogous to the Cyrillic letter И or the Latin I, and it appears in the uppercase form of the Glagolitic script, which was historically used in liturgical manuscripts across Slavic regions before largely being replaced by Cyrillic. The character is part of the Unicode Glagolitic block, encoded for modern digital representation to preserve the script for scholarly, linguistic, and cultural heritage purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2C09 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Glagolitic Capital Letter Izhe |
| Block | Glagolitic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⰹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⰹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB0 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2C09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002C09 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2c09 |
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 | "ⰹ" U+2C39 Glagolitic Small Letter Izhe |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⰹ" U+2C39 Glagolitic Small Letter Izhe |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⰹ" U+2C39 Glagolitic Small Letter Izhe |
| Case Folding | "ⰹ" U+2C39 Glagolitic Small Letter Izhe |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⰹ" U+2C39 Glagolitic Small Letter Izhe |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⰹ" U+2C39 Glagolitic Small Letter Izhe |
| 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 |