U+2C51 "ⱑ" Glagolitic Small Letter Yati Unicode Character

U+2C51 "ⱑ" Glagolitic Small Letter Yati is a letter from the Glagolitic script, an early Slavic alphabet devised by Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century to translate biblical texts into Old Church Slavonic. This character represents a vowel sound historically similar to the "yat" in other Slavic alphabets, and it is used in the Glagolitic writing system as the lowercase counterpart of the uppercase Yati (U+2C31). The letter appears in medieval manuscripts and modern scholarly reconstructions of the script, serving as a linguistic marker for a specific phoneme that later merged with other vowels in many Slavic languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C51
Version Added	4.1
Name	Glagolitic Small Letter Yati
Block	Glagolitic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⱑ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⱑ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB1 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C51
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C51
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c51

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	"Ⱑ" U+2C21 Glagolitic Capital Letter Yati
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⱑ" U+2C21 Glagolitic Capital Letter Yati
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⱑ" U+2C21 Glagolitic Capital Letter Yati
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⱑ" U+2C21 Glagolitic Capital Letter Yati
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