U+A652 "Ꙓ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Iotified Yat Unicode Character
U+A652 "Ꙓ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Iotified Yat is a historical glyph from the early Cyrillic alphabet, representing a vowel sound that combined the iotation or palatalization of the letter "yat" with a preceding "I" sound, essentially a variant of the regular yat letter (Ѣ) used in certain Old Church Slavonic and early East Slavic manuscripts. This character, along with its lowercase counterpart ꙓ, was part of a complex system of letters that gradually fell out of use as the Cyrillic script evolved and simplified, particularly after the Russian orthography reform of 1918 which abolished the yat entirely. While rarely seen in modern texts, the iotified yat survives in scholarly editions of medieval Slavic documents and in specialized fonts designed for historical linguistic research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A652 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Iotified Yat |
| Block | Cyrillic Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꙓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꙓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x99 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA652 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A652 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua652 |
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 | "ꙓ" U+A653 Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Yat |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꙓ" U+A653 Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Yat |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꙓ" U+A653 Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Yat |
| Case Folding | "ꙓ" U+A653 Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Yat |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꙓ" U+A653 Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Yat |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꙓ" U+A653 Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Yat |
| 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 |