U+04B4 "Ҵ" Cyrillic Capital Ligature Te Tse Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+04B4 "Ҵ" Cyrillic Capital Ligature Te Tse is a typographic ligature used in the Cyrillic script, formed by combining the letters Te (Т) and Tse (Ц) into a single grapheme. It appears in certain alphabets for the Abkhaz language, where it represents the distinct sound /t͜sʰ/ or a similar affricate. This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block and is typically paired with its lowercase form, ҵ, ensuring consistent representation in digitized texts for languages requiring this phonetic nuance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04B4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Ligature Te Tse |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Te Tse |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ҵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ҵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04B4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004B4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04b4 |
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 | "ҵ" U+04B5 Cyrillic Small Ligature Te Tse |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ҵ" U+04B5 Cyrillic Small Ligature Te Tse |
| Simple Case Folding | "ҵ" U+04B5 Cyrillic Small Ligature Te Tse |
| Case Folding | "ҵ" U+04B5 Cyrillic Small Ligature Te Tse |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ҵ" U+04B5 Cyrillic Small Ligature Te Tse |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ҵ" U+04B5 Cyrillic Small Ligature Te Tse |
| 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 |