U+04AB "ҫ" Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+04AB "ҫ" Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender is a modified Cyrillic letter used primarily in the Bashkir and Chuvash languages, where it represents the voiceless dental fricative sound similar to the English "th" in "thin." Its uppercase counterpart is U+04AA "Ҫ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Es with Descender, and the descender distinguishes it from the standard Cyrillic letter Es (С с) by indicating a specific phonetic value not found in many other Slavic languages. This character is encoded in the Cyrillic block of Unicode and is essential for accurate orthography in the writing systems of certain Turkic and Uralic languages within the Russian Federation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04AB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Es Cedilla |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ҫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ҫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04ab |
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 | "Ҫ" U+04AA Cyrillic Capital Letter Es with Descender |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ҫ" U+04AA Cyrillic Capital Letter Es with Descender |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ҫ" U+04AA Cyrillic Capital Letter Es with Descender |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ҫ" U+04AA Cyrillic Capital Letter Es 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 |