U+A65C was added to Unicode in version 5.1 (2008). It belongs to the block Cyrillic Extended-B in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Cyrillic script. It is related to its lowercase variant .
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+A65C behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Upper for sentence and ALetter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Little yus (Ѧ ѧ) and big yus (Ѫ ѫ), or jus, are letters of the Cyrillic script representing two Common Slavonic nasal vowels in the early Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets. Each can occur in iotified form (Ѩ ѩ, Ѭ ѭ), formed as ligatures with the letter Decimal I (І). Other yus letters are blended yus (Ꙛ ꙛ), closed little yus (Ꙙ ꙙ) and iotified closed little yus (Ꙝ ꙝ).
Phonetically, little yus represents a nasalized front vowel, possibly [ɛ̃], while big yus represents a nasalized back vowel, such as IPA [ɔ̃]. This is also suggested by the appearance of each as a 'stacked' digraph of 'Am' and 'om' respectively.
The names of the letters do not imply capitalization, as both little and big yus exist in majuscule and minuscule variants.
All modern Slavic languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet have lost the nasal vowels, making yus unnecessary.
Big yus was a part of the Bulgarian alphabet until 1945. However, by that time, in the eastern dialects the back nasal was pronounced the same way as ъ [ə]. Because the language is based mainly on them, the western pronunciations were deemed unliterary and the letter was removed.
There are some Bulgarian dialects around Thessaloniki and Kastoria in northern Greece that still preserve a nasal pronunciation: [ˈkə̃(n)de ˈɡrẽ(n)deʃ ˈmilo ˈt͡ʃẽ(n)do] ('Where are you going, dear child?').
In Russia, little yus was adapted to represent the iotated /ja/ (я) in the middle or end of a word; the modern letter я is an adaptation of its cursive form of the seventeenth century, enshrined by the typographical reform of 1708. (This is also why я in Russian often corresponds to nasalized ę in Polish; cf. Russian пять; Polish pięć.)
In Polish, which is a Slavic language written with Latin alphabet, the letter Ę ę has the phonetic value of little yus, while Ą ą has that of big yus. The iotated forms are written ię, ią, ję, ją in Polish. However, the phonemes written ę and ą are not directly descended from those represented by little and big yus, but developed after the original nasals merged in Polish and then diverged again. (Kashubian, the closest relative of Polish, uses ã instead of ę.)
Little and big yus can also be found in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, used until about 1860. Little yus was used for /ja/ and big yus for /ɨ/.
System | Representation |
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Nº | 42588 |
UTF-8 | EA 99 9C |
UTF-16 | A6 5C |
UTF-32 | 00 00 A6 5C |
URL-Quoted | %EA%99%9C |
HTML-Escape | Ꙝ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ê |
Property | Value |
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Age (age) | 5.1 |
Unicode Name (na) | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IOTIFIED CLOSED LITTLE YUS |
Unicode 1 Name (na1) | — |
Block (blk) | Cyrillic_Ext_B |
General Category (gc) | Uppercase Letter |
Script (sc) | Cyrillic |
Bidirectional Category (bc) | Left To Right |
Combining Class (ccc) | Not Reordered |
Decomposition Type (dt) | None |
Decomposition Mapping (dm) |
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Lowercase (Lower) | ✘ |
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) |
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Lowercase Mapping (lc) |
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Uppercase (Upper) | ✔ |
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) |
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Uppercase Mapping (uc) |
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Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) |
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Titlecase Mapping (tc) |
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Case Folding (cf) |
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ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) | ✘ |
Alphabetic (Alpha) | ✔ |
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) | ✘ |
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) | ✘ |
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) |
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Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) | None |
Cased (Cased) | ✔ |
Composition Exclusion (CE) | ✘ |
Case Ignorable (CI) | ✘ |
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) | ✘ |
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) | ✔ |
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) | ✔ |
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) | ✔ |
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) | ✔ |
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) | ✘ |
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) | ✘ |
Dash (Dash) | ✘ |
Deprecated (Dep) | ✘ |
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) | ✘ |
Diacritic (Dia) | ✘ |
East Asian Width (ea) | Neutral |
Extender (Ext) | ✘ |
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) |
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Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) | Any |
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) | ✔ |
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) | ✘ |
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) | ✘ |
Hex Digit (Hex) | ✘ |
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) | Not Applicable |
Hyphen (Hyphen) | ✘ |
ID Continue (IDC) | ✔ |
Ideographic (Ideo) | ✘ |
ID Start (IDS) | ✔ |
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) | ✘ |
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) | ✘ |
InMC (InMC) | — |
Indic Positional Category (InPC) | NA |
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) | Other |
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) | — |
Joining Group (jg) | No_Joining_Group |
Join Control (Join_C) | ✘ |
Jamo Short Name (JSN) | — |
Joining Type (jt) | Non Joining |
Line Break (lb) | Alphabetic |
Logical Order Exception (LOE) | ✘ |
Math (Math) | ✘ |
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) | ✘ |
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) | Yes |
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) | Yes |
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) |
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NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) | Yes |
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) | Yes |
Numeric Type (nt) | None |
Numeric Value (nv) | NaN |
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) | ✘ |
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) | ✘ |
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) | ✘ |
Other ID Continue (OIDC) | ✘ |
Other ID Start (OIDS) | ✘ |
Other Lowercase (OLower) | ✘ |
Other Math (OMath) | ✘ |
Other Uppercase (OUpper) | ✘ |
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) | ✘ |
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) | ✘ |
Quotation Mark (QMark) | ✘ |
Radical (Radical) | ✘ |
Sentence Break (SB) | Upper |
Simple Case Folding (scf) |
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Script Extension (scx) | Cyrillic |
Soft Dotted (SD) | ✘ |
STerm (STerm) | ✘ |
Terminal Punctuation (Term) | ✘ |
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) | ✘ |
Variation Selector (VS) | ✘ |
Word Break (WB) | ALetter |
White Space (WSpace) | ✘ |
XID Continue (XIDC) | ✔ |
XID Start (XIDS) | ✔ |
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) | ✘ |
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) | ✘ |
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) | ✘ |
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) | ✘ |