U+A65E "Ꙟ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Yn Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꙟ
U+A65E "Ꙟ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Yn is a historical glyph from the early Cyrillic alphabet, used primarily in old Romanian and Church Slavonic texts to represent a specific nasal vowel sound, similar to the modern Romanian letter "Î" or "Â". This character, along with its lowercase counterpart "ꙟ", was part of a larger set of letters designed to accurately transcribe the phonetics of the Romanian language before the adoption of the modern Latin-based alphabet. It belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-B block and is rarely encountered in contemporary writing, serving mostly as a scholarly interest for paleographers and linguists studying medieval manuscripts and the evolution of Slavic and Romance scripts in Eastern Europe.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A65E |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Yn |
| Block | Cyrillic Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꙟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꙟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x99 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA65E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A65E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua65e |
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 | "ꙟ" U+A65F Cyrillic Small Letter Yn |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꙟ" U+A65F Cyrillic Small Letter Yn |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꙟ" U+A65F Cyrillic Small Letter Yn |
| Case Folding | "ꙟ" U+A65F Cyrillic Small Letter Yn |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꙟ" U+A65F Cyrillic Small Letter Yn |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꙟ" U+A65F Cyrillic Small Letter Yn |
| 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 |