U+A656 "Ꙗ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Iotified A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꙗ
U+A656 "Ꙗ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Iotified A is a historical glyph from the early Cyrillic alphabet, representing a ligature of the Cyrillic letters I (І) and A (А), which indicates that the vowel A is preceded by a yod or "y" sound, similar to the pronunciation of "ya" in English. This character was used primarily in Old Church Slavonic and other early Slavic manuscripts to denote the iotated vowel sound, but it has since fallen out of standard modern usage, being replaced in most contemporary Cyrillic-based writing systems by the letter Я. In Unicode, it is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block and is primarily of interest to linguists, paleographers, and scholars studying historical Slavonic texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A656 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Iotified A |
| Block | Cyrillic Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꙗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꙗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x99 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA656 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A656 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua656 |
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 | "ꙗ" U+A657 Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified A |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꙗ" U+A657 Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified A |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꙗ" U+A657 Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified A |
| Case Folding | "ꙗ" U+A657 Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified A |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꙗ" U+A657 Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified A |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꙗ" U+A657 Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified A |
| 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 |