U+04AD "ҭ" Cyrillic Small Letter Te with Descender Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+04AD "ҭ" Cyrillic Small Letter Te with Descender is a variant of the standard Cyrillic letter Te, distinguished by a small descender or hook attached to the bottom of the letter's vertical stem. It is used primarily in the Abkhaz language alphabet, where it represents a specific voiceless aspirated alveolar plosive sound, distinct from the regular /t/ sound. The corresponding uppercase form is U+04AC "Ҭ", and this letter is an essential part of the Abkhaz orthography, reflecting the language's rich phonetic inventory. It is also encountered in some other minority languages of the Caucasus region, though its usage remains relatively specialized outside of Abkhaz.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04AD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Te with Descender |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Te with Right Descender |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ҭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ҭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04AD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004AD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04ad |
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 | "Ҭ" U+04AC Cyrillic Capital Letter Te with Descender |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ҭ" U+04AC Cyrillic Capital Letter Te with Descender |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ҭ" U+04AC Cyrillic Capital Letter Te with Descender |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ҭ" U+04AC Cyrillic Capital Letter Te 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 |