U+0437 "з" Cyrillic Small Letter Ze Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0437 "з" Cyrillic Small Letter Ze is the lowercase form of the seventh letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, corresponding closely to the Latin letter Z in both shape and sound, as it typically represents the voiced alveolar fricative /z/ in languages like Russian, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian. Its uppercase counterpart is the Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze (U+0417). Historically derived from the Greek letter Zeta (Ζ), the glyph for "з" has a rounded, cursive appearance that distinguishes it from the similar-looking numeral three, and it remains an essential component in the orthography of many Slavic and non Slavic languages that use the Cyrillic script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0437 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Ze |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | з |
| HTML Hex Encoding | з |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD0 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0437 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000437 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0437 |
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 | "З" U+0417 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "З" U+0417 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze |
| Uppercase Code Point | "З" U+0417 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze |
| Titlecase Code Point | "З" U+0417 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze |
| 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 |