U+04AA "Ҫ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Es with Descender Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+04AA "Ҫ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Es with Descender is a variant of the standard Cyrillic letter Es, distinguished by a short vertical stroke descending below the baseline from the lower left side of the character. It is used primarily in the alphabets of several non-Slavic languages within the Russian Federation, such as Bashkir, Chuvash, and Tatar, where it typically represents a voiceless dental fricative sound similar to the English "th" in "thin". This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Cyrillic script block, enabling its proper representation and processing in digital text systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04AA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Es with Descender |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Es Cedilla |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ҫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ҫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04AA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004AA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04aa |
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 | "ҫ" U+04AB Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ҫ" U+04AB Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender |
| Simple Case Folding | "ҫ" U+04AB Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender |
| Case Folding | "ҫ" U+04AB Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ҫ" U+04AB Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ҫ" U+04AB Cyrillic Small Letter Es 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 |