U+2C54 "ⱔ" Glagolitic Small Letter Small Yus Unicode Character

U+2C54 "ⱔ" Glagolitic Small Letter Small Yus is a glyph from the Glagolitic script, an early Slavic alphabet devised by Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century to write Old Church Slavonic. This specific letter represents a nasalized front vowel sound, similar to the modern Polish "ę," and corresponds to the Cyrillic letter Small Yus (Ѧ). In the Glagolitic alphabet, it was used for transliterating and writing liturgical texts, contributing to the spread of Christianity among Slavic peoples. The character is a lowercase form, with its uppercase variant being U+2C34, and it is encoded in Unicode to support historical and scholarly digital representation of medieval Slavic literature.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C54
Version Added	4.1
Name	Glagolitic Small Letter Small Yus
Block	Glagolitic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⱔ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⱔ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB1 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C54
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C54
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c54

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	"Ⱔ" U+2C24 Glagolitic Capital Letter Small Yus
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⱔ" U+2C24 Glagolitic Capital Letter Small Yus
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⱔ" U+2C24 Glagolitic Capital Letter Small Yus
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⱔ" U+2C24 Glagolitic Capital Letter Small Yus
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