U+2C4E "ⱎ" Glagolitic Small Letter Sha Unicode Character

U+2C4E "ⱎ" Glagolitic Small Letter Sha is a glyph from the Glagolitic script, an early Slavic alphabet devised by Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century for writing Old Church Slavonic. This specific character represents the sound /ʃ/ (like the "sh" in "ship") and corresponds to the Cyrillic letter Ш and the Latin letter Š. As a "small" letter, it belongs to the lowercase set within the Glagolitic block of Unicode, which was added to the standard to support historical and liturgical Slavic texts. Its distinctive shape, resembling a stylized loop or hook, reflects the unique design principles of the Glagolitic script, which differs markedly from the later Cyrillic alphabet.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C4E
Version Added	4.1
Name	Glagolitic Small Letter Sha
Block	Glagolitic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⱎ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⱎ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB1 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C4E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C4E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c4e

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	"Ⱎ" U+2C1E Glagolitic Capital Letter Sha
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⱎ" U+2C1E Glagolitic Capital Letter Sha
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⱎ" U+2C1E Glagolitic Capital Letter Sha
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⱎ" U+2C1E Glagolitic Capital Letter Sha
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