U+2C3A "ⰺ" Glagolitic Small Letter Initial Izhe Unicode Character

U+2C3A "ⰺ" Glagolitic Small Letter Initial Izhe is part of the Glagolitic script, an ancient Slavic alphabet devised by Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century to translate religious texts into Old Church Slavonic. This specific character represents a variant form of the letter "Izhe," used in the initial position of words, and it likely corresponds to the sound /i/ or a similar vowel. Its distinct shape, with a looped or hooked design, sets it apart from the standard Glagolitic Izhe, reflecting scribal conventions in early Slavic manuscripts. The character is included in the Unicode Standard to support historical and linguistic study of medieval Slavic writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C3A
Version Added	4.1
Name	Glagolitic Small Letter Initial Izhe
Block	Glagolitic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⰺ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⰺ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB0 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C3A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C3A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c3a

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	"Ⰺ" U+2C0A Glagolitic Capital Letter Initial Izhe
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⰺ" U+2C0A Glagolitic Capital Letter Initial Izhe
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⰺ" U+2C0A Glagolitic Capital Letter Initial Izhe
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⰺ" U+2C0A Glagolitic Capital Letter Initial Izhe
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