U+0450 "ѐ" Cyrillic Small Letter Ie with Grave Unicode Character
U+0450 "ѐ" Cyrillic Small Letter Ie with Grave is a variant of the Cyrillic letter "е" (ie) combined with a grave accent diacritic, used primarily for precise phonetic or tonal representation in certain Slavic languages. It appears in standard Serbian, Macedonian, and occasionally Bulgarian orthography to indicate a stressed vowel with a falling tone, distinguishing it from other stress patterns in words. This character is encoded in Unicode as part of the Cyrillic script block, enabling digital text processing and display for linguistic studies, poetry, or historical documents where accentuation is critical. Unlike its unaccented counterpart, "ѐ" helps clarify pronunciation in contexts where the grave accent modifies the vowel's sound or prosodic role.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0450 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Ie with Grave |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "е" U+0435 Cyrillic Small Letter Ie "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ѐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ѐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD1 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0450 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000450 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0450 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ѐ" U+0400 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ie with Grave |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ѐ" U+0400 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ie with Grave |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ѐ" U+0400 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ie with Grave |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ѐ" U+0400 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ie with Grave |
| 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 |