CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHORT U character

CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHORT U
U+040E
1038
Ў
Ў
Lu (Uppercase Letter)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Cyrillic
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHORT U is an uppercase letter from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHORT U is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Uppercase Letter (Lu) refers to characters that are uppercase in a bicameral script. These include uppercase letters in scripts like Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and others. Uppercase letters are typically used at the beginning of sentences or proper nouns, and they are distinct from lowercase letters.

This character belongs to the Cyrillic block. The Cyrillic block includes characters used for writing the Cyrillic script, which is employed in various languages across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, including Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and many others. Developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th century, the Cyrillic script is named after Saint Cyril, one of the creators of the Glagolitic alphabet. The block contains letters used in modern languages, as well as historical letters that were used in older forms of these languages. The Cyrillic script is also widely used in computing and digital text processing within these regions..