U+2C28 "Ⱘ" Glagolitic Capital Letter Big Yus Unicode Character
U+2C28 "Ⱘ" Glagolitic Capital Letter Big Yus is a character from the Glagolitic script, an early Slavic alphabet created by Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century to translate Christian texts. This specific letter represents a nasalized back vowel, typically pronounced like the "on" in French "bon," and it corresponds to the Cyrillic letter "Ѫ" known as Big Yus. As a capital letter, it appears in the title case or at the beginning of words in historical Glagolitic manuscripts, though the script itself eventually fell out of common use, being replaced primarily by the Cyrillic alphabet. Today, U+2C28 is used in scholarly contexts, digital typography, and liturgical materials for the study and preservation of Old Church Slavonic and related linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2C28 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Glagolitic Capital Letter Big Yus |
| Block | Glagolitic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⱘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⱘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB0 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2C28 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002C28 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2c28 |
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 | "ⱘ" U+2C58 Glagolitic Small Letter Big Yus |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⱘ" U+2C58 Glagolitic Small Letter Big Yus |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⱘ" U+2C58 Glagolitic Small Letter Big Yus |
| Case Folding | "ⱘ" U+2C58 Glagolitic Small Letter Big Yus |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⱘ" U+2C58 Glagolitic Small Letter Big Yus |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⱘ" U+2C58 Glagolitic Small Letter Big Yus |
| 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 |