U+0416 "Ж" Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ж
U+0416 "Ж" Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe is a letter used in multiple Cyrillic alphabets, including Russian, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian. It represents the voiced retroflex fricative sound similar to the "s" in "measure" or the "zh" in "Zhivago". The character is visually distinctive, appearing like an insect or snowflake with a central vertical stem flanked by two symmetrical curves, and its lowercase form is "ж". In Unicode, it is encoded in the Cyrillic block from U+0400 to U+04FF and has a typical uppercase design that varies slightly across fonts but retains its recognizable shape.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0416 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ж |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ж |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD0 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0416 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000416 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0416 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ж" U+0436 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ж" U+0436 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe |
| Simple Case Folding | "ж" U+0436 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe |
| Case Folding | "ж" U+0436 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ж" U+0436 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ж" U+0436 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe |
| 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 |