U+2C29 "Ⱙ" Glagolitic Capital Letter Iotated Big Yus Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2C29 "Ⱙ" Glagolitic Capital Letter Iotated Big Yus is a historical letter used in the Glagolitic alphabet, one of the oldest known Slavic scripts, which was developed in the 9th century by Saints Cyril and Methodius. This character represents a nasalized vowel sound that combines an initial "y" or iotation with a back nasal vowel, often transcribed as "ę" in modern scholarship, and it belongs to a variant of the "Big Yus" series of letters. It is the uppercase form of its lowercase counterpart U+2C59 "ⱙ" and is part of the Unicode block for Glagolitic script, which was added to the standard to support the digital preservation and study of early Slavic texts, such as those from Old Church Slavonic manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2C29 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Glagolitic Capital Letter Iotated Big Yus |
| Block | Glagolitic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⱙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⱙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB0 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2C29 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002C29 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2c29 |
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 | "ⱙ" U+2C59 Glagolitic Small Letter Iotated Big Yus |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⱙ" U+2C59 Glagolitic Small Letter Iotated Big Yus |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⱙ" U+2C59 Glagolitic Small Letter Iotated Big Yus |
| Case Folding | "ⱙ" U+2C59 Glagolitic Small Letter Iotated Big Yus |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⱙ" U+2C59 Glagolitic Small Letter Iotated Big Yus |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⱙ" U+2C59 Glagolitic Small Letter Iotated 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 |