U+2C1B "Ⱋ" Glagolitic Capital Letter Shta Unicode Character

U+2C1B "Ⱋ" Glagolitic Capital Letter Shta is a character from the Glagolitic script, an ancient Slavic alphabet devised in the 9th century by Saint Cyril to translate religious texts for the Slavic peoples. This specific letter represents the sound equivalent to the Cyrillic "Щ" or the consonant cluster "sht," and its historical usage was primarily in Old Church Slavonic manuscripts. As a capital letter, it appears in the uppercase form of the Glagolitic alphabet, contrasting with its lowercase counterpart U+2C3B. Today, the character is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support digital representation and study of this early Slavic writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C1B
Version Added	4.1
Name	Glagolitic Capital Letter Shta
Block	Glagolitic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⱋ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⱋ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB0 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C1B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C1B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c1b

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	"ⱋ" U+2C4B Glagolitic Small Letter Shta
Lowercase Code Point	"ⱋ" U+2C4B Glagolitic Small Letter Shta
Simple Case Folding	"ⱋ" U+2C4B Glagolitic Small Letter Shta
Case Folding	"ⱋ" U+2C4B Glagolitic Small Letter Shta
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⱋ" U+2C4B Glagolitic Small Letter Shta
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⱋ" U+2C4B Glagolitic Small Letter Shta
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