U+A65D "ꙝ" Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Closed Little Yus Unicode Character

U+A65D "ꙝ" Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Closed Little Yus is a rare and historic glyph used in the early Cyrillic script, specifically in Old Church Slavonic and certain medieval Slavic manuscripts. It represents a nasal vowel sound that combines a preceding "i" or yod sound with the closed little yus, a nasalized front vowel thought to have been pronounced similarly to the modern "ę" or a nasal "e". This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block and was employed primarily in the orthography of early Slavic languages before the nasal vowels lost their nasalization and merged with other sounds in most modern Slavic languages. Today, it is mostly of interest to paleographers, linguists, and scholars studying the historical development of the Cyrillic alphabet and the phonetic evolution of Slavic languages.