U+048E "Ҏ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Er with Tick Unicode Character
U+048E "Ҏ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Er with Tick is a specialized letter used primarily in the Kildin Sami language, an endangered Uralic language spoken on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia. It is derived from the standard Cyrillic letter Er (Р, р) with the addition of a diacritical "tick" or hook, which modifies its pronunciation to represent a voiceless or devoiced alveolar trill, a sound distinct from the regular voiced Russian Р. This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-A block and is encoded to support the orthographic needs of Kildin Sami, where it often appears in educational and linguistic materials for accurate transcription of native words. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text in this minority language can be properly represented and preserved.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+048E |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Er with Tick |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ҏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ҏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x048E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000048E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u048e |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ҏ" U+048F Cyrillic Small Letter Er with Tick |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ҏ" U+048F Cyrillic Small Letter Er with Tick |
| Simple Case Folding | "ҏ" U+048F Cyrillic Small Letter Er with Tick |
| Case Folding | "ҏ" U+048F Cyrillic Small Letter Er with Tick |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ҏ" U+048F Cyrillic Small Letter Er with Tick |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ҏ" U+048F Cyrillic Small Letter Er with Tick |
| 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 | Upper |