U+A64E "Ꙏ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Neutral Yer Unicode Character

U+A64E "Ꙏ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Neutral Yer is a historical glyph used primarily in early Cyrillic manuscripts and scholarly reconstructions of Old Church Slavonic and related medieval Slavic texts. It represents a vowel sound that is neither hard nor soft, often described as a neutral or reduced yer, and appears in contexts where the distinction between the front yer (ь) and back yer (ъ) is blurred or lost. This letter is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block and is rarely encountered in modern usage, serving mainly for paleographic and linguistic study.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A64E
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Capital Letter Neutral Yer
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꙏ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꙏ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x99 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA64E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A64E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua64e

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
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"ꙏ" U+A64F Cyrillic Small Letter Neutral Yer
Lowercase Code Point	"ꙏ" U+A64F Cyrillic Small Letter Neutral Yer
Simple Case Folding	"ꙏ" U+A64F Cyrillic Small Letter Neutral Yer
Case Folding	"ꙏ" U+A64F Cyrillic Small Letter Neutral Yer
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꙏ" U+A64F Cyrillic Small Letter Neutral Yer
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꙏ" U+A64F Cyrillic Small Letter Neutral Yer
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	Upper