U+0499 "ҙ" Cyrillic Small Letter Ze with Descender Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0499 "ҙ" Cyrillic Small Letter Ze with Descender is a modified letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used primarily in the Bashkir language, where it represents the voiced dental fricative sound /ð/, similar to the English "th" in the word "that". Its uppercase counterpart is U+0498 "Ҙ", and the letter's design adds a descender, a small tail or stroke hanging below the baseline, to the standard Cyrillic Ze (З з) to distinguish this unique sound. This character is an essential part of Bashkir orthography and appears in other languages such as Tatar and Kazakh in certain historical or contextual uses, aiding in the accurate representation of specific phonetic distinctions absent from Russian.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0499 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Ze with Descender |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Ze Cedilla |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ҙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ҙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0499 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000499 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0499 |
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 | "Ҙ" U+0498 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze with Descender |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ҙ" U+0498 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze with Descender |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ҙ" U+0498 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze with Descender |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ҙ" U+0498 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze 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 |