U+0474 "Ѵ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Izhitsa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+0474 "Ѵ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Izhitsa is a historic letter from the early Cyrillic alphabet, derived from the Greek letter upsilon. It was traditionally used in Church Slavonic to represent the sound /i/ or /v/, often in words of Greek origin such as "Ѵpѡдръ" for "hypodrъ" or "Ѵстїнъ" for "Justin". Its usage gradually declined after the Russian orthographic reform of 1918, which simplified the alphabet by removing several letters, including the Izhitsa, making it a rare character in modern text. Today, it appears primarily in liturgical and scholarly contexts, preserving a link to the historical development of Slavic writing systems.
General Properties
Code Point
U+0474
Name
Cyrillic Capital Letter Izhitsa
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ѵ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ѵ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xD1 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0474
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000474
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0474
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Cyrillic