U+A659 "ꙙ" Cyrillic Small Letter Closed Little Yus Unicode Character

U+A659 "ꙙ" Cyrillic Small Letter Closed Little Yus is a historical glyph used in the early Cyrillic alphabet to represent a nasalized front vowel sound, specifically the reduced or "closed" variant of the letter Little Yus (Ѧ ѧ). This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block and is primarily encountered in medieval Slavic manuscripts, where it served to distinguish a more narrow or iotated nasal vowel that eventually merged with other sounds in the evolution of modern Slavic languages. Its usage today is largely confined to scholarly paleography and linguistic reconstruction, as it was not adopted in any living writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A659
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Closed Little Yus
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ꙙ
HTML Hex Encoding	ꙙ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x99 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA659
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A659
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua659

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	"Ꙙ" U+A658 Cyrillic Capital Letter Closed Little Yus
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꙙ" U+A658 Cyrillic Capital Letter Closed Little Yus
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꙙ" U+A658 Cyrillic Capital Letter Closed Little Yus
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꙙ" U+A658 Cyrillic Capital Letter Closed Little Yus
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