U+2DFE "ⷾ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Big Yus Unicode Character

U+2DFE "ⷾ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Big Yus is a diacritical mark used in historical and liturgical Cyrillic texts, designed to be placed above or below a base character to modify its phonetic value. This combining form represents the Big Yus (Ѫ ѫ), a vowel originally denoting a nasalized back vowel in Old Church Slavonic and early Slavic languages. Unlike the standalone Big Yus letter, this grapheme combines with other characters to indicate specific nasalization or palatalization in scholarly or religious manuscripts. Its inclusion in Unicode enables accurate digital representation of ancient Slavic script variants, particularly for philologists and historians studying medieval Cyrillic orthography. Today, it remains primarily relevant in academic and paleographic contexts rather than in modern language usage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2DFE
Version Added	5.1
Name	Combining Cyrillic Letter Big 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 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2DFE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002DFE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2dfe

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