Home U+0400 to U+04FF Cyrillic
Glyph for U+042F
Source: Noto Sans

U+042F Cyrillic Capital Letter Ya

U+042F was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0400 to U+04FF Cyrillic in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Cyrillic script. Its lowercase variant is Glyph for U+044F Cyrillic Small Letter Ya.

The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+042F forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Ya, Ia or Ja (Я я; italics: Я я) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, the civil script variant of Old Cyrillic Little Yus (Ѧ ѧ), and possibly Iotated A (Ꙗ ꙗ). Among modern Slavic languages, it is used in the East Slavic languages and Bulgarian. It is also used in the Cyrillic alphabets used by Mongolian and many Uralic, Caucasian and Turkic languages of the former Soviet Union.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 1071
UTF-8 D0 AF
UTF-16 04 2F
UTF-32 00 00 04 2F
URL-Quoted %D0%AF
HTML hex reference Я
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Я
HTML named entity Я
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) AC C1
Encoding: IBM866 (hex bytes) 9F
Encoding: ISO-8859-5 (hex bytes) CF
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) A7 C1
Encoding: KOI8-R (hex bytes) F1
Encoding: KOI8-U (hex bytes) F1
Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) DF
Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) 9F
LATEX \cyrchar\CYRYA
Adobe Glyph List IAcyrillic
Adobe Glyph List afii10049
digraph JA

Related Characters

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YA
Unicode 1 Name (na1) CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IA
Block (blk) Cyrillic
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) Glyph for U+042F Cyrillic Capital Letter Ya
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+044F Cyrillic Small Letter Ya
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+044F Cyrillic Small Letter Ya
Uppercase (Upper) ✔
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+042F Cyrillic Capital Letter Ya
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+042F Cyrillic Capital Letter Ya
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+042F Cyrillic Capital Letter Ya
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+042F Cyrillic Capital Letter Ya
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+044F Cyrillic Small Letter Ya
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
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) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✔
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+042F Cyrillic Capital Letter Ya
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✔
ID Start (IDS) ✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
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) Glyph for U+044F Cyrillic Small Letter Ya
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+044F Cyrillic Small Letter Ya
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
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) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Upper
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
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) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+042F Cyrillic Capital Letter Ya
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+044F Cyrillic Small Letter Ya
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R