U+04B9 "ҹ" Cyrillic Small Letter Che with Vertical Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ҹ
U+04B9 "ҹ" Cyrillic Small Letter Che with Vertical Stroke is a distinctive glyph used primarily in the Azerbaijani Cyrillic alphabet, where it represents the voiced postalveolar affricate sound /d͡ʒ/, similar to the English "j" in "judge." It is the lowercase form of the capital letter Che with Vertical Stroke (U+04B8 "Ҹ") and features a vertical line descending from the middle of the letter's stem, distinguishing it from the standard Cyrillic Che (ч). This character was historically employed in Soviet-era Azerbaijani orthography but has largely been replaced by the Latin script "C" or "J" in modern usage, though it remains of interest to linguists and those studying historical Cyrillic transcriptions of Turkic languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04B9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Che with Vertical Stroke |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Che Vertical Bar |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ҹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ҹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04b9 |
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 | "Ҹ" U+04B8 Cyrillic Capital Letter Che with Vertical Stroke |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ҹ" U+04B8 Cyrillic Capital Letter Che with Vertical Stroke |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ҹ" U+04B8 Cyrillic Capital Letter Che with Vertical Stroke |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ҹ" U+04B8 Cyrillic Capital Letter Che with Vertical Stroke |
| 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 |