U+A65C "Ꙝ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Iotified Closed Little Yus Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A65C "Ꙝ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Iotified Closed Little Yus is a historic and rarely used glyph from the extended Cyrillic script, representing a nasalized vowel sound that combines the initial iotation (a preceding "y"-like glide) with the phonetic quality of a "closed little yus," which itself denoted a front nasalized vowel. This letter was employed primarily in medieval Old Church Slavonic and early Cyrillic manuscripts, where it served to transcribe specific nasalized sounds that were present in the language at that time but later shifted or disappeared in most modern Slavic languages. The character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that scholars and typographers can accurately represent historical texts, though it sees little to no use in contemporary writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+A65C
Version Added 5.1
Name Cyrillic Capital Letter Iotified Closed Little Yus
Block Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding Ꙝ
HTML Hex Encoding Ꙝ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x99 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA65C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A65C
C/C++/Java Escape \ua65c

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 "ꙝ" U+A65D Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Closed Little Yus
Lowercase Code Point "ꙝ" U+A65D Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Closed Little Yus
Simple Case Folding "ꙝ" U+A65D Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Closed Little Yus
Case Folding "ꙝ" U+A65D Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Closed Little Yus
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ꙝ" U+A65D Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Closed Little Yus
NFKC Simple Casefold "ꙝ" U+A65D Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Closed Little Yus
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