U+A64F "ꙏ" Cyrillic Small Letter Neutral Yer Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A64F "ꙏ" Cyrillic Small Letter Neutral Yer is a rare and archaic glyph used in historical Cyrillic manuscripts, specifically designed to represent a reduced vowel sound that was intermediate between the hard sign (ъ) and the soft sign (ь) in certain Slavic dialects or orthographic systems. This character, part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block, was employed primarily to indicate a weakened or neutral yer vowel during periods of linguistic transition, and it appears in early printed texts and annotated glossaries rather than in modern standard alphabets. Its usage reflects attempts to precisely encode phonetic nuances that have since become obsolete, making it a subject of interest for paleographers and historical linguists studying the evolution of Slavic writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+A64F
Version Added 5.1
Name Cyrillic Small Letter Neutral Yer
Block Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category Lowercase 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 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA64F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A64F
C/C++/Java Escape \ua64f

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 "Ꙏ" U+A64E Cyrillic Capital Letter Neutral Yer
Simple Titlecase Code Point "Ꙏ" U+A64E Cyrillic Capital Letter Neutral Yer
Uppercase Code Point "Ꙏ" U+A64E Cyrillic Capital Letter Neutral Yer
Titlecase Code Point "Ꙏ" U+A64E Cyrillic Capital Letter Neutral Yer
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