U+0496 "Җ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Descender Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0496 "Җ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Descender is a modified form of the standard Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж), which includes a descender that extends below the baseline. This letter is used in several non-Slavic languages that utilize the Cyrillic script, such as the Turkmen, Kalmyk, and Tatar alphabets, where it typically represents the voiced postalveolar affricate sound /dʒ/ (similar to the English "j" in "jump"). It should not be confused with the similar-looking but distinct Unicode character U+04D6 "Ӗ" or other diacritic variants, as its specific visual feature a short tail or hook hanging from the bottom of the glyph uniquely distinguishes it from standard Zhe.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0496 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Descender |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Right Descender |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Җ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Җ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0496 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000496 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0496 |
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 | "җ" U+0497 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Descender |
| Lowercase Code Point | "җ" U+0497 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Descender |
| Simple Case Folding | "җ" U+0497 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Descender |
| Case Folding | "җ" U+0497 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Descender |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "җ" U+0497 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Descender |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "җ" U+0497 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Descender |
| 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 |