U+04C1 "Ӂ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Breve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+04C1 "Ӂ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Breve is a modified version of the standard Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж), distinguished by the addition of a breve diacritic, a small curved mark placed above the character. This letter is primarily used in the Moldovan language when written in the Cyrillic alphabet, which was historically employed in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, where it represents a specific palatalized sound distinct from the plain Zhe. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures correct text representation and digital preservation for documents and systems that require this specialized Cyrillic character, though it remains relatively rare in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04C1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Breve |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Short Zhe |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ж" U+0416 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe "̆" U+0306 Combining Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ӂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ӂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD3 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04C1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004C1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04c1 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ӂ" U+04C2 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Breve |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ӂ" U+04C2 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Breve |
| Simple Case Folding | "ӂ" U+04C2 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Breve |
| Case Folding | "ӂ" U+04C2 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Breve |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ӂ" U+04C2 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Breve |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ӂ" U+04C2 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Breve |
| 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 |