U+2C56 "ⱖ" Glagolitic Small Letter Yo Unicode Character

U+2C56 "ⱖ" Glagolitic Small Letter Yo is a lowercase letter from the Glagolitic script, an early Slavic alphabet created by Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century to write Old Church Slavonic. This character represents the sound /jɔ/ or /jo/ (similar to the English "yo" sequence) and corresponds to the uppercase Glagolitic letter "Ⱖ" (U+2C26). It is used in historical and liturgical texts, where it functions as a distinct vowel glyph, and it is now primarily of interest to scholars and enthusiasts of paleography, digital typography, and Slavic linguistic history.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C56
Version Added	4.1
Name	Glagolitic Small Letter Yo
Block	Glagolitic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⱖ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⱖ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB1 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C56
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C56
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c56

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	"Ⱖ" U+2C26 Glagolitic Capital Letter Yo
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⱖ" U+2C26 Glagolitic Capital Letter Yo
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⱖ" U+2C26 Glagolitic Capital Letter Yo
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⱖ" U+2C26 Glagolitic Capital Letter Yo
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