U+04A6 "Ҧ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Pe with Middle Hook Unicode Character
U+04A6 "Ҧ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Pe with Middle Hook is a historical or dialectal variant of the Cyrillic letter Pe (П, п), distinguished by a small hook or diacritic attached to the middle of its vertical stem. This character was primarily used in certain old Cyrillic orthographies, such as in the early 20th century for the Abkhaz language, where it represented a specific phoneme, typically a labialized or aspirated sound like [pʷ] or [pʰ]. While not part of the standard modern Cyrillic alphabet, it remains encoded in Unicode to support historical texts, linguistic research, and digital preservation of older writing systems. Its usage is rare in contemporary contexts, but it serves as an important typographic marker for scholars studying the evolution of Cyrillic script and minority language documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04A6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Pe with Middle Hook |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Pe Hook |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ҧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ҧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04A6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004A6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04a6 |
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 | "ҧ" U+04A7 Cyrillic Small Letter Pe with Middle Hook |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ҧ" U+04A7 Cyrillic Small Letter Pe with Middle Hook |
| Simple Case Folding | "ҧ" U+04A7 Cyrillic Small Letter Pe with Middle Hook |
| Case Folding | "ҧ" U+04A7 Cyrillic Small Letter Pe with Middle Hook |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ҧ" U+04A7 Cyrillic Small Letter Pe with Middle Hook |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ҧ" U+04A7 Cyrillic Small Letter Pe with Middle Hook |
| 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 |