U+0497 "җ" Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Descender Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0497 "җ" Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Descender is a variant of the Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж) that includes a descender, a short tail extending below the baseline, attached to its lower right side. It is used primarily in the alphabets of several non-Slavic languages written with Cyrillic script, such as Tatar, Bashkir, and Kalmyk, where it typically represents a voiced postalveolar affricate sound similar to the "j" in English "judge". This letter is the lowercase form of U+0496 "Җ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Descender, and it is distinct from the standard Zhe, enabling precise phonetic transcription in these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0497 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Descender |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Right Descender |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | җ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | җ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0497 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000497 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0497 |
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 |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Җ" U+0496 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Descender |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Җ" U+0496 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Descender |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Җ" U+0496 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Descender |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Җ" U+0496 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Descender |
| 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 |