U+2C38 "ⰸ" Glagolitic Small Letter Zemlja Unicode Character

U+2C38 "ⰸ" Glagolitic Small Letter Zemlja is a character from the Glagolitic alphabet, an early Slavic script created in the 9th century by Saints Cyril and Methodius to translate religious texts into Old Church Slavonic. This particular letter represents the sound /z/ and corresponds to the Cyrillic letter "З" or the Latin "Z", with its name "Zemlja" meaning "earth" or "land" in Slavic languages. As a part of the Glagolitic small letters block in Unicode, it is used for scholarly and liturgical purposes, helping to preserve the historical writing system that was primarily employed in Croatia and parts of southeastern Europe until the Middle Ages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C38
Version Added	4.1
Name	Glagolitic Small Letter Zemlja
Block	Glagolitic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⰸ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⰸ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB0 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C38
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C38
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c38

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	"Ⰸ" U+2C08 Glagolitic Capital Letter Zemlja
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⰸ" U+2C08 Glagolitic Capital Letter Zemlja
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⰸ" U+2C08 Glagolitic Capital Letter Zemlja
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⰸ" U+2C08 Glagolitic Capital Letter Zemlja
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