U+040E "Ў" Cyrillic Capital Letter Short U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ў
U+040E "Ў" Cyrillic Capital Letter Short U is a distinct letter in the Cyrillic script, formed by adding a breve (a short curved diacritic) over the standard Cyrillic U (У). It represents the sound /w/ or a short, non-syllabic [u] in several languages, most notably in Belarusian, where it is the 22nd letter of the alphabet and a fundamental part of the orthography. The letter is also used in the Uzbek Cyrillic alphabet, where it denotes a sound similar to the English "w," as well as in certain Siberian and Caucasian languages such as Dungan, Itelmen, and Nivkh. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation and text processing for these linguistic communities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+040E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Short U |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "У" U+0423 Cyrillic Capital Letter U "̆" U+0306 Combining Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ў |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ў |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD0 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x040E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000040E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u040e |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ў" U+045E Cyrillic Small Letter Short U |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ў" U+045E Cyrillic Small Letter Short U |
| Simple Case Folding | "ў" U+045E Cyrillic Small Letter Short U |
| Case Folding | "ў" U+045E Cyrillic Small Letter Short U |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ў" U+045E Cyrillic Small Letter Short U |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ў" U+045E Cyrillic Small Letter Short U |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |