U+04B7 "ҷ" Cyrillic Small Letter Che with Descender Unicode Character

U+04B7 "ҷ" Cyrillic Small Letter Che with Descender is a modified version of the standard Cyrillic letter Che, distinguished by a descender or hook extending downward from the bottom of the character. It is primarily used in the alphabets of several minority languages within the Russian Federation and surrounding regions, such as Abkhaz, where it typically represents a voiced postalveolar affricate sound similar to the "j" in "judge." The uppercase counterpart of this letter is U+04B6 "Ҷ", and its inclusion in Unicode helps support the accurate digital representation and preservation of these less widely documented languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+04B7
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Che with Descender
Unicode 1.0 Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Che with Right Descender
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ҷ
HTML Hex Encoding	ҷ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD2 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0x04B7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000004B7
C/C++/Java Escape	\u04b7

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	"Ҷ" U+04B6 Cyrillic Capital Letter Che with Descender
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ҷ" U+04B6 Cyrillic Capital Letter Che with Descender
Uppercase Code Point	"Ҷ" U+04B6 Cyrillic Capital Letter Che with Descender
Titlecase Code Point	"Ҷ" U+04B6 Cyrillic Capital Letter Che 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