U+2C5A "ⱚ" Glagolitic Small Letter Fita Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2C5A "ⱚ" Glagolitic Small Letter Fita is a letter from the Glagolitic script, an ancient Slavic alphabet historically used for writing Old Church Slavonic and other early Slavic languages. This specific character represents the small or minuscule form of the letter originally corresponding to the Greek theta, and it was employed to transcribe the Greek letter fita (theta) in borrowed words, particularly those of religious or scholarly origin. As part of the Glagolitic writing system, its usage faded after the gradual replacement of the script by the Cyrillic alphabet, and today it remains a significant historical element for paleographers and linguists studying early Slavic texts and cultural heritage.

General Properties

Code Point U+2C5A
Version Added 4.1
Name Glagolitic Small Letter Fita
Block Glagolitic
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ⱚ
HTML Hex Encoding ⱚ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0xB1 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2C5A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002C5A
C/C++/Java Escape \u2c5a

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 "Ⱚ" U+2C2A Glagolitic Capital Letter Fita
Simple Titlecase Code Point "Ⱚ" U+2C2A Glagolitic Capital Letter Fita
Uppercase Code Point "Ⱚ" U+2C2A Glagolitic Capital Letter Fita
Titlecase Code Point "Ⱚ" U+2C2A Glagolitic Capital Letter Fita
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