U+A650 "Ꙑ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Yeru with Back Yer Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꙑ
U+A650 "Ꙑ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Yeru with Back Yer is a historical typographic variant used primarily in early Cyrillic manuscripts and printed texts, representing a combination of the letters Yeru (which itself is a digraph of Ъ and І) and the Back Yer (a reversed form of the Yer or hard sign). This character was employed in Old East Slavic and Church Slavonic orthography to denote a specific phonetic value or scribal convention, often appearing in words where the back yer vowel was stressed or lengthened. It is encoded in the Cyrillic Extended-B block of Unicode, intended for scholarly and paleographic transcription, and is not used in modern standard Cyrillic alphabets.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A650 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Yeru with Back Yer |
| Block | Cyrillic Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꙑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꙑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x99 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA650 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A650 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua650 |
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 | "ꙑ" U+A651 Cyrillic Small Letter Yeru with Back Yer |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꙑ" U+A651 Cyrillic Small Letter Yeru with Back Yer |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꙑ" U+A651 Cyrillic Small Letter Yeru with Back Yer |
| Case Folding | "ꙑ" U+A651 Cyrillic Small Letter Yeru with Back Yer |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꙑ" U+A651 Cyrillic Small Letter Yeru with Back Yer |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꙑ" U+A651 Cyrillic Small Letter Yeru with Back 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 |