U+2C20 "Ⱐ" Glagolitic Capital Letter Yeri Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ⱐ
U+2C20 "Ⱐ" Glagolitic Capital Letter Yeri is a character from the Glagolitic script, an early Slavic alphabet created in the 9th century by Saints Cyril and Methodius. This specific letter represents the vowel sound /ɯ/ or a similar high back unrounded vowel, and it is the uppercase version of its lowercase counterpart U+2C50 "ⱐ". Historically used in Old Church Slavonic manuscripts, the Glagolitic script was eventually largely replaced by the Cyrillic alphabet, though it remained in liturgical use in some regions. The capital Yeri is notable for its distinct shape and its role in the phonetic system of the Glagolitic alphabet, making it an important subject of study for paleographers and linguists working with early Slavic texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2C20 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Glagolitic Capital Letter Yeri |
| Block | Glagolitic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⱐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⱐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB0 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2C20 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002C20 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2c20 |
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 | "ⱐ" U+2C50 Glagolitic Small Letter Yeri |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⱐ" U+2C50 Glagolitic Small Letter Yeri |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⱐ" U+2C50 Glagolitic Small Letter Yeri |
| Case Folding | "ⱐ" U+2C50 Glagolitic Small Letter Yeri |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⱐ" U+2C50 Glagolitic Small Letter Yeri |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⱐ" U+2C50 Glagolitic Small Letter Yeri |
| 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 |