U+04CC "ӌ" Cyrillic Small Letter Khakassian Che Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+04CC "ӌ" Cyrillic Small Letter Khakassian Che is a specialized letter used in the Cyrillic alphabet for the Khakass language, which is spoken by the Khakas people in southern Siberia, Russia. It represents a voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate sound, similar to the "ch" in the English word "cheese," and is typically used in Khakass orthography to distinguish this sound from the more common Cyrillic "ч." The character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block in Unicode, and its uppercase counterpart is U+04CB "Ӌ". While not widely known outside linguistic or digital typography contexts, it plays an essential role in preserving and representing the phonetic uniqueness of the Khakass writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04CC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Khakassian Che |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Che with Left Descender |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ӌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ӌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD3 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04CC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004CC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04cc |
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 | "Ӌ" U+04CB Cyrillic Capital Letter Khakassian Che |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ӌ" U+04CB Cyrillic Capital Letter Khakassian Che |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ӌ" U+04CB Cyrillic Capital Letter Khakassian Che |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ӌ" U+04CB Cyrillic Capital Letter Khakassian Che |
| 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 |