U+2C31 "ⰱ" Glagolitic Small Letter Buky Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⰱ
U+2C31 "ⰱ" Glagolitic Small Letter Buky is a minuscule form of the second letter in the Glagolitic alphabet, historically used to write Old Church Slavonic. This letter represents the sound /b/ and derives its name from the word for "letter" or "beech tree," reflecting the early Slavic tradition of naming letters after common objects. It is the lowercase counterpart to the uppercase character U+2C01 "Ⰱ" and is primarily of interest to scholars studying medieval Slavic manuscripts and the development of the Cyrillic script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2C31 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Glagolitic Small Letter Buky |
| Block | Glagolitic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⰱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⰱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB0 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2C31 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002C31 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2c31 |
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 |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ⰱ" U+2C01 Glagolitic Capital Letter Buky |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ⰱ" U+2C01 Glagolitic Capital Letter Buky |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ⰱ" U+2C01 Glagolitic Capital Letter Buky |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ⰱ" U+2C01 Glagolitic Capital Letter Buky |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |