U+A654 "Ꙕ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Reversed Yu Unicode Character

U+A654 "Ꙕ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Reversed Yu is a variant form of the standard Cyrillic letter Yu, distinguished by its mirror image orientation where the horizontal stroke and connected vertical stem are reversed to the left rather than the right. This character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block, which was designed to support historical and liturgical texts in the Church Slavonic language. Its usage is primarily restricted to early Cyrillic manuscripts and printed books, where scribes employed this reversed form as a stylistic or orthographic alternative, particularly in certain regional or scribal traditions. Unlike the modern standard Yu, the reversed version is not used in contemporary Slavic languages and appears only in specialized scholarly editions or digital representations of ancient texts, serving as a key tool for paleographers and linguists studying the evolution of Cyrillic script.