U+2C44 "ⱄ" Glagolitic Small Letter Slovo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2C44 "ⱄ" Glagolitic Small Letter Slovo is a letter from the Glagolitic script, one of the oldest known Slavic alphabets, traditionally attributed to Saint Cyril in the 9th century. This specific character represents the sound /s/ and corresponds to the name "slovo," which means "word" in Old Church Slavonic, reflecting its cultural significance as a symbol of written language. In the Glagolitic alphabet, it is the uppercase counterpart of U+2C0C "Ⰼ" Glagolitic Capital Letter Slovo, and it is used in historical manuscripts and modern scholarly contexts to preserve the linguistic heritage of early Slavic texts. Its design features a distinct, angular shape characteristic of the Glagolitic script, setting it apart from the later Cyrillic alphabet.

General Properties

Code Point U+2C44
Version Added 4.1
Name Glagolitic Small Letter Slovo
Block Glagolitic
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ⱄ
HTML Hex Encoding ⱄ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0xB1 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2C44
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002C44
C/C++/Java Escape \u2c44

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 "Ⱄ" U+2C14 Glagolitic Capital Letter Slovo
Simple Titlecase Code Point "Ⱄ" U+2C14 Glagolitic Capital Letter Slovo
Uppercase Code Point "Ⱄ" U+2C14 Glagolitic Capital Letter Slovo
Titlecase Code Point "Ⱄ" U+2C14 Glagolitic Capital Letter Slovo
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