U+2C57 "ⱗ" Glagolitic Small Letter Iotated Small Yus Unicode Character

U+2C57 "ⱗ" Glagolitic Small Letter Iotated Small Yus is a historic letter from the Glagolitic alphabet, one of the oldest known Slavic writing systems, created in the 9th century by Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius. This specific character represents a nasalized vowel sound, specifically the iotated version of the small yus, which in early Slavic languages indicated a front nasal vowel preceded by a yod sound, similar to the phonetic value of the Cyrillic letter ѩ. Its lowercase form is used in scholarly texts and digital typography to accurately transcribe ancient manuscripts and liturgical works, preserving the linguistic heritage of Old Church Slavonic.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C57
Version Added	4.1
Name	Glagolitic Small Letter Iotated Small Yus
Block	Glagolitic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⱗ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⱗ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB1 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C57
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C57
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c57

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	"Ⱗ" U+2C27 Glagolitic Capital Letter Iotated Small Yus
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⱗ" U+2C27 Glagolitic Capital Letter Iotated Small Yus
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⱗ" U+2C27 Glagolitic Capital Letter Iotated Small Yus
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⱗ" U+2C27 Glagolitic Capital Letter Iotated 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