U+2C37 "ⰷ" Glagolitic Small Letter Dzelo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2C37 "ⰷ" Glagolitic Small Letter Dzelo is a letter from the Glagolitic script, an early Slavic alphabet created by Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century to translate the Bible into Old Church Slavonic. This specific small letter represents the sound equivalent to a voiced affricate, roughly corresponding to the Latin letters "dz" or the Cyrillic "Ѕ" in certain languages. Historically, the Glagolitic script was used in regions like Croatia and parts of the Balkans before being largely replaced by the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, and the character Dzelo held a numerical value of eight in the Glagolitic numeral system. Today, it is preserved in digital text through Unicode, enabling scholars and enthusiasts to represent medieval Slavic texts with accuracy in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+2C37
Version Added 4.1
Name Glagolitic Small Letter Dzelo
Block Glagolitic
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ⰷ
HTML Hex Encoding ⰷ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0xB0 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2C37
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002C37
C/C++/Java Escape \u2c37

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 "Ⰷ" U+2C07 Glagolitic Capital Letter Dzelo
Simple Titlecase Code Point "Ⰷ" U+2C07 Glagolitic Capital Letter Dzelo
Uppercase Code Point "Ⰷ" U+2C07 Glagolitic Capital Letter Dzelo
Titlecase Code Point "Ⰷ" U+2C07 Glagolitic Capital Letter Dzelo
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