U+2C53 "ⱓ" Glagolitic Small Letter Yu Unicode Character

U+2C53 "ⱓ" Glagolitic Small Letter Yu is a lowercase letter from the Glagolitic alphabet, an early Slavic script created by Saint Cyril in the 9th century for writing Old Church Slavonic, which predates and served as the basis for the Cyrillic alphabet. This specific character represents the sound /ju/ similar to the English "you" and corresponds to the Cyrillic letter "Ю". Historically, the Glagolitic script was used primarily in liturgical texts and by certain Slavic communities in Croatia and Bulgaria before being largely replaced by Cyrillic, and the letter Yu often appears in manuscripts as part of the alphabet’s distinctive and rounded graphical system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C53
Version Added	4.1
Name	Glagolitic Small Letter Yu
Block	Glagolitic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⱓ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⱓ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB1 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C53
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C53
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c53

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	"Ⱓ" U+2C23 Glagolitic Capital Letter Yu
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⱓ" U+2C23 Glagolitic Capital Letter Yu
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⱓ" U+2C23 Glagolitic Capital Letter Yu
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⱓ" U+2C23 Glagolitic Capital Letter Yu
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