U+042F CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YA

The Unicode character U+042F, officially named CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YA, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Cyrillic block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IA.

Categorized technically as a Uppercase Letter, this character typically falls under the Cyrillic script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.