U+04C2 "ӂ" Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Breve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ӂ
U+04C2 "ӂ" Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Breve is a letter used primarily in the Cyrillic-based alphabets of certain non-Slavic languages, most notably in the Moldovan and Romanian Cyrillic alphabets during the mid 20th century, where it represented the postalveolar affricate sound similar to the English "j" in "judge." Its form combines the standard Cyrillic letter Zhe (ж) with a breve diacritic mark above it, indicating a palatalized or softened pronunciation. This character is distinct from the more common Zhe without a breve and is part of the Unicode Cyrillic block, though it is rarely used in modern digital text, having been largely replaced by Latin equivalents in many contexts after alphabets were romanized.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04C2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Breve |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Short Zhe |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ж" U+0436 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe "̆" U+0306 Combining Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ӂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ӂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD3 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04C2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004C2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04c2 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ӂ" U+04C1 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Breve |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ӂ" U+04C1 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Breve |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ӂ" U+04C1 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Breve |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ӂ" U+04C1 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Breve |
| 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 |