U+2C5C "ⱜ" Glagolitic Small Letter Shtapic Unicode Character

U+2C5C "ⱜ" Glagolitic Small Letter Shtapic is a character from the Glagolitic script, an early Slavic alphabet created in the 9th century by Saints Cyril and Methodius for writing Old Church Slavonic. This specific letter represents a sound similar to the modern "shch" or "sht" and is the lowercase form of the uppercase Glagolitic letter Shtapic (U+2C2C). It is used in historical and liturgical contexts, particularly in manuscripts and texts documenting the development of Slavic languages, and is part of the Unicode Standard to support digital preservation and study of ancient scripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C5C
Version Added	4.1
Name	Glagolitic Small Letter Shtapic
Block	Glagolitic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⱜ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⱜ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB1 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C5C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C5C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c5c

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	"Ⱜ" U+2C2C Glagolitic Capital Letter Shtapic
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⱜ" U+2C2C Glagolitic Capital Letter Shtapic
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⱜ" U+2C2C Glagolitic Capital Letter Shtapic
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⱜ" U+2C2C Glagolitic Capital Letter Shtapic
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