U+0447 "ч" Cyrillic Small Letter Che Unicode Character

U+0447 "ч" Cyrillic Small Letter Che is part of the Cyrillic script and represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate sound /tʃ/, similar to the "ch" in the English word "church". It is the 24th letter of the Russian alphabet and appears in various other Cyrillic-based writing systems, including Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and Serbian. Its uppercase counterpart is U+0427 "Ч". The letter has a distinctive shape that often resembles an upside-down lowercase "l" or a stylized "4". Historically, "ч" derives from the Glagolitic letter "cherv" and has been a standard element of the Cyrillic alphabet since its early development, used widely in Slavic languages and non-Slavic languages influenced by Russian.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0447
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Che
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ч
HTML Hex Encoding	ч
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD1 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0447
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000447
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0447

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	"Ч" U+0427 Cyrillic Capital Letter Che
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ч" U+0427 Cyrillic Capital Letter Che
Uppercase Code Point	"Ч" U+0427 Cyrillic Capital Letter Che
Titlecase Code Point	"Ч" U+0427 Cyrillic Capital Letter Che
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