U+2C23 "Ⱓ" Glagolitic Capital Letter Yu Unicode Character

U+2C23 "Ⱓ" Glagolitic Capital Letter Yu is a letter from the Glagolitic script, the oldest known Slavic alphabet created by Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century to translate Christian texts into Old Church Slavonic. This capital letter represents the sound /ju/ and corresponds to the Cyrillic letter Ю, serving as an uppercase form used primarily in inscriptions, headings, or formal contexts within Glagolitic manuscripts. The character is one of several uppercase variants in the Glagolitic block of Unicode, which was added to the standard to support historical and liturgical Slavic texts, preserving a key piece of early Slavic linguistic heritage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C23
Version Added	4.1
Name	Glagolitic Capital Letter Yu
Block	Glagolitic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⱓ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⱓ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB0 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C23
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C23
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c23

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	"ⱓ" U+2C53 Glagolitic Small Letter Yu
Lowercase Code Point	"ⱓ" U+2C53 Glagolitic Small Letter Yu
Simple Case Folding	"ⱓ" U+2C53 Glagolitic Small Letter Yu
Case Folding	"ⱓ" U+2C53 Glagolitic Small Letter Yu
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⱓ" U+2C53 Glagolitic Small Letter Yu
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⱓ" U+2C53 Glagolitic Small Letter Yu
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