U+045E "ў" Cyrillic Small Letter Short U Unicode Character

U+045E "ў" Cyrillic Small Letter Short U is a modified Cyrillic letter derived from the standard Cyrillic "у" with a breve diacritic, representing a short or semivowel sound similar to the English "w" in "low" rather than a full vowel. It is primarily used in the Belarusian alphabet, where it is a distinct letter called "u short" or "u kratkoe," and also appears in some non-Slavic languages like Dungan and certain Siberian languages to indicate a glide or diphthong element. This character reflects the phonetic adaptation of Cyrillic scripts to capture specific sounds not present in Russian or other standard Slavic alphabets.

General Properties

Code Point	U+045E
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Short U
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"у" U+0443 Cyrillic Small Letter U "̆" U+0306 Combining Breve

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ў
HTML Hex Encoding	ў
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD1 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x045E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000045E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u045e

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	"Ў" U+040E Cyrillic Capital Letter Short U
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ў" U+040E Cyrillic Capital Letter Short U
Uppercase Code Point	"Ў" U+040E Cyrillic Capital Letter Short U
Titlecase Code Point	"Ў" U+040E Cyrillic Capital Letter Short U
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