U+0436 "ж" Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe Unicode Character

U+0436 "ж" Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe is a distinctive letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the voiced retroflex sibilant sound similar to the "s" in "measure" or the "j" in "jeopardy" in English. It is the eighth letter in the Russian alphabet and is also used in many other Cyrillic-based writing systems, including Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and Serbian. Visually, its shape resembles an insect or a stylized asterisk, consisting of a vertical stem with symmetrical curves or hooks on both sides. This character is derived from the Glagolitic alphabet and has a corresponding uppercase form, "Ж" (U+0416), which appears at the start of sentences or proper nouns.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0436
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ж
HTML Hex Encoding	ж
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD0 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0436
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000436
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0436

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ж" U+0416 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ж" U+0416 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe
Uppercase Code Point	"Ж" U+0416 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe
Titlecase Code Point	"Ж" U+0416 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower