U+04A7 "ҧ" Cyrillic Small Letter Pe with Middle Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ҧ
U+04A7 "ҧ" Cyrillic Small Letter Pe with Middle Hook is a variant of the Cyrillic letter Pe, distinguished by a small hook attached to the middle of its stem, which historically indicated a specific palatalized or fricative pronunciation in certain Slavic languages. It is primarily used in earlier orthographies of languages like Church Slavonic or in transliteration systems, where it represents a sound similar to the voiceless bilabial fricative [ɸ] or a softened [p]. In contemporary digital typography, this character is rare but remains encoded in Unicode for scholarly and historical text preservation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04A7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Pe with Middle Hook |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Pe Hook |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ҧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ҧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04A7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004A7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04a7 |
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 | "Ҧ" U+04A6 Cyrillic Capital Letter Pe with Middle Hook |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ҧ" U+04A6 Cyrillic Capital Letter Pe with Middle Hook |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ҧ" U+04A6 Cyrillic Capital Letter Pe with Middle Hook |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ҧ" U+04A6 Cyrillic Capital Letter Pe with Middle Hook |
| 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 |