U+04BF "ҿ" Cyrillic Small Letter Abkhasian Che with Descender Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+04BF "ҿ" Cyrillic Small Letter Abkhasian Che with Descender is a specific letter used in the Abkhaz language, where it represents the voiced uvular ejective affricate sound, often romanized as "j" or "ӡ". This character is a modification of the standard Cyrillic letter Che (ч) with a descender, a diacritical mark that extends below the baseline to distinguish it from similar sounds in the Abkhaz alphabet. It is encoded in the Cyrillic Unicode block and is primarily utilized in written Abkhaz, a Northwest Caucasian language spoken in the disputed region of Abkhazia. The uppercase counterpart is U+04BE "Ҿ", and the character plays a crucial role in accurately transcribing the phonetic nuances of Abkhaz linguistics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04BF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Abkhasian Che with Descender |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Ie Hook Ogonek |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ҿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ҿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04BF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004BF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04bf |
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 | "Ҿ" U+04BE Cyrillic Capital Letter Abkhasian Che with Descender |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ҿ" U+04BE Cyrillic Capital Letter Abkhasian Che with Descender |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ҿ" U+04BE Cyrillic Capital Letter Abkhasian Che with Descender |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ҿ" U+04BE Cyrillic Capital Letter Abkhasian 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 |