U+2DFD "ⷽ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Little Yus Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2DFD "ⷽ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Little Yus is a combining diacritical mark used in historical Slavic linguistic notation to modify a preceding base character, typically indicating the presence of a nasal vowel derived from the Cyrillic Little Yus (Ѧ/ѧ). Unlike standalone Cyrillic letters, this character does not represent a sound on its own but instead attaches to a preceding letter in digital text to represent a phonetic or orthographic nuance found in ancient manuscripts or scholarly transliterations. It belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-B block and is primarily employed by philologists and paleographers when annotating or reconstructing early Slavic texts where nasal vowels were phonemically distinct. The glyph combines a small version of the Little Yus shape with a combining spacing appearance, ensuring it blends seamlessly above or alongside its host character in properly configured fonts.

General Properties

Code Point U+2DFD
Version Added 5.1
Name Combining Cyrillic Letter Little Yus
Block Cyrillic Extended-A
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Above
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ⷽ
HTML Hex Encoding ⷽ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0xB7 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2DFD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002DFD
C/C++/Java Escape \u2dfd

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Cyrillic
Script Extensions Cyrillic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend