U+2C59 "ⱙ" Glagolitic Small Letter Iotated Big Yus Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2C59 "ⱙ" Glagolitic Small Letter Iotated Big Yus is a historical Cyrillic-derived letter used in the Glagolitic script, one of the oldest known Slavic alphabets, which was created in the 9th century by Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius. This specific character represents a nasalized vowel sound that combines an iotation with the back nasal vowel "big yus," and it was employed in Old Church Slavonic to write words in the liturgical and literary traditions of early Slavic peoples. While the Glagolitic script eventually fell out of common use in favor of the Cyrillic alphabet, the inclusion of this character in Unicode preserves its scholarly and historical significance for linguists and historians studying the development of Slavic languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+2C59
Version Added 4.1
Name Glagolitic Small Letter Iotated Big Yus
Block Glagolitic
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ⱙ
HTML Hex Encoding ⱙ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0xB1 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2C59
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002C59
C/C++/Java Escape \u2c59

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 "Ⱙ" U+2C29 Glagolitic Capital Letter Iotated Big Yus
Simple Titlecase Code Point "Ⱙ" U+2C29 Glagolitic Capital Letter Iotated Big Yus
Uppercase Code Point "Ⱙ" U+2C29 Glagolitic Capital Letter Iotated Big Yus
Titlecase Code Point "Ⱙ" U+2C29 Glagolitic Capital Letter Iotated 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