U+2C5B "ⱛ" Glagolitic Small Letter Izhitsa Unicode Character

U+2C5B "ⱛ" Glagolitic Small Letter Izhitsa is a historical letter from the Glagolitic script, an early Slavic alphabet devised in the 9th century by Saint Cyril and Methodius. This character represents the counterpart to the uppercase Glagolitic Izhitsa and is used to denote the vowel sound /i/ or related phonetic values, often corresponding to the Greek letter upsilon in transliterations of liturgical texts. As a small letter, it appears in medieval manuscripts and modern digital representations of the Glagolitic alphabet, primarily for scholarly, liturgical, or typographic purposes to preserve the writing system of Old Church Slavonic.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C5B
Version Added	4.1
Name	Glagolitic Small Letter Izhitsa
Block	Glagolitic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⱛ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⱛ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB1 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C5B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C5B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c5b

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	"Ⱛ" U+2C2B Glagolitic Capital Letter Izhitsa
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⱛ" U+2C2B Glagolitic Capital Letter Izhitsa
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⱛ" U+2C2B Glagolitic Capital Letter Izhitsa
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⱛ" U+2C2B Glagolitic Capital Letter Izhitsa
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