U+2C58 "ⱘ" Glagolitic Small Letter Big Yus Unicode Character

U+2C58 "ⱘ" Glagolitic Small Letter Big Yus is a typographic representation of a specific letter from the Glagolitic script, one of the oldest known Slavic alphabets, traditionally attributed to Saint Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century. This letter corresponds to the sound of a nasalized back vowel, often written as "ǫ" in academic transliteration, and its capital counterpart is U+2C38. It appears in historical manuscripts used for writing Old Church Slavonic, primarily in liturgical texts, and is now preserved in modern digital standards to support linguistic research and cultural heritage documentation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C58
Version Added	4.1
Name	Glagolitic Small Letter Big Yus
Block	Glagolitic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⱘ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⱘ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB1 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C58
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C58
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c58

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	"Ⱘ" U+2C28 Glagolitic Capital Letter Big Yus
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⱘ" U+2C28 Glagolitic Capital Letter Big Yus
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⱘ" U+2C28 Glagolitic Capital Letter Big Yus
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⱘ" U+2C28 Glagolitic Capital Letter Big 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