U+A64B "ꙋ" Cyrillic Small Letter Monograph Uk Unicode Character

U+A64B "ꙋ" Cyrillic Small Letter Monograph Uk is a historical Cyrillic letter used primarily in early Slavic manuscripts to represent the sound /u/, functioning as a ligature or monogram form of the digraph "Оу" which was traditionally written as two separate characters. This distinctive letter, part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block, was commonly employed in Old Church Slavonic and early printed texts before the standard Cyrillic letter "У" became predominant. Its design combines elements of the letters "О" and "У" into a single glyph, often appearing as an "О" shape with a tail extending downward, making it a unique and archaic character in the Cyrillic script's evolution.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A64B
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Monograph Uk
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ꙋ
HTML Hex Encoding	ꙋ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x99 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA64B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A64B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua64b

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	"Ꙋ" U+A64A Cyrillic Capital Letter Monograph Uk
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꙋ" U+A64A Cyrillic Capital Letter Monograph Uk
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꙋ" U+A64A Cyrillic Capital Letter Monograph Uk
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꙋ" U+A64A Cyrillic Capital Letter Monograph Uk
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
Script	Cyrillic
Script Extensions	Cyrillic
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