U+04B5 "ҵ" Cyrillic Small Ligature Te Tse Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+04B5 "ҵ" Cyrillic Small Ligature Te Tse is a historical and typographic ligature found in the Old Church Slavonic and early Cyrillic writing traditions, specifically representing a combination of the letters Te (Т) and Tse (Ц) into a single glyph. It was used to denote the phonetic sequence /tts/ or a similar affricate sound in certain Slavic languages, particularly in manuscripts and early printed texts before standard script reforms simplified such ligatures. Although not commonly used in modern Cyrillic alphabets, this character is encoded in Unicode to support accurate digital representation of historical Slavic documents, paleographic studies, and specialized linguistic research into ancient orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04B5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Ligature Te Tse |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Te Tse |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ҵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ҵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04B5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004B5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04b5 |
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 | "Ҵ" U+04B4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature Te Tse |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ҵ" U+04B4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature Te Tse |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ҵ" U+04B4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature Te Tse |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ҵ" U+04B4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature Te Tse |
| 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 |