U+04B8 "Ҹ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Che with Vertical Stroke Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+04B8 "Ҹ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Che with Vertical Stroke is a variant of the Cyrillic letter Che (Ч) that incorporates a vertical stroke through its middle, used primarily in certain non-Slavic languages of the former Soviet Union. It represents a specific palatalized or affricate sound distinct from the standard Che, often encountered in the orthographies of languages such as Azerbaijani (historically) or other Turkic and Caucasian languages that required additional phonetic distinctions. This character occupies a niche within the Cyrillic script, serving to transcribe a unique phoneme not adequately covered by the basic Cyrillic inventory. As a standardized Unicode symbol, it ensures consistent digital representation and preservation of these languages' written forms across modern computing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+04B8
Version Added 1.1
Name Cyrillic Capital Letter Che with Vertical Stroke
Unicode 1.0 Name Cyrillic Capital Letter Che Vertical Bar
Block Cyrillic
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding Ҹ
HTML Hex Encoding Ҹ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD2 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x04B8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000004B8
C/C++/Java Escape \u04b8

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 "ҹ" U+04B9 Cyrillic Small Letter Che with Vertical Stroke
Lowercase Code Point "ҹ" U+04B9 Cyrillic Small Letter Che with Vertical Stroke
Simple Case Folding "ҹ" U+04B9 Cyrillic Small Letter Che with Vertical Stroke
Case Folding "ҹ" U+04B9 Cyrillic Small Letter Che with Vertical Stroke
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ҹ" U+04B9 Cyrillic Small Letter Che with Vertical Stroke
NFKC Simple Casefold "ҹ" U+04B9 Cyrillic Small Letter Che with Vertical Stroke
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