U+0498 "Ҙ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze with Descender Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0498 "Ҙ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze with Descender is a modified letter in the Cyrillic script used primarily in the Bashkir language, where it represents the voiced dental fricative sound /ð/, similar to the "th" in the English word "that". It is formed by adding a descender, a small stroke extending downward from the baseline, to the standard Cyrillic letter Ze (З). This character is part of the extended Cyrillic block and is encoded for digital text to support the specific phonetic needs of Bashkir and a few other languages, ensuring accurate representation in writing systems that require this distinct sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0498 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze with Descender |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze Cedilla |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ҙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ҙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0498 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000498 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0498 |
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 | "ҙ" U+0499 Cyrillic Small Letter Ze with Descender |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ҙ" U+0499 Cyrillic Small Letter Ze with Descender |
| Simple Case Folding | "ҙ" U+0499 Cyrillic Small Letter Ze with Descender |
| Case Folding | "ҙ" U+0499 Cyrillic Small Letter Ze with Descender |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ҙ" U+0499 Cyrillic Small Letter Ze with Descender |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ҙ" U+0499 Cyrillic Small Letter Ze 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 |