U+0446 "ц" Cyrillic Small Letter Tse Unicode Character

U+0446 "ц" Cyrillic Small Letter Tse is a letter in the Cyrillic script that represents the voiceless alveolar affricate sound /ts/, similar to the "ts" in the English word "cats." It is the 24th letter in the Russian alphabet and also appears in other Slavic languages like Bulgarian and Ukrainian, as well as non-Slavic languages that use Cyrillic. Historically derived from the Hebrew letter tsade, this character pairs with an uppercase version U+0426 "Ц" and plays an important role in writing loanwords and native vocabulary across many languages in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0446
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Tse
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ц
HTML Hex Encoding	ц
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD1 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0446
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000446
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0446

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	"Ц" U+0426 Cyrillic Capital Letter Tse
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ц" U+0426 Cyrillic Capital Letter Tse
Uppercase Code Point	"Ц" U+0426 Cyrillic Capital Letter Tse
Titlecase Code Point	"Ц" U+0426 Cyrillic Capital Letter Tse
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