U+04CD "Ӎ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Em with Tail Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+04CD "Ӎ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Em with Tail is a modified Cyrillic letter used primarily in the Kildin Sami language, spoken by the Sami people on the Kola Peninsula in Russia. Its distinctive feature is the diacritical tail descending from the bottom of the standard Cyrillic letter Em, representing a specific nasal sound that does not occur in standard Russian. The lowercase counterpart is U+04CE "ӎ". While relatively obscure globally, this character is essential for accurately writing and preserving the Kildin Sami orthography, which was standardized in the 20th century and is supported in the Cyrillic Extended-B Unicode block.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04CD |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Em with Tail |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ӎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ӎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD3 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04CD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004CD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04cd |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ӎ" U+04CE Cyrillic Small Letter Em with Tail |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ӎ" U+04CE Cyrillic Small Letter Em with Tail |
| Simple Case Folding | "ӎ" U+04CE Cyrillic Small Letter Em with Tail |
| Case Folding | "ӎ" U+04CE Cyrillic Small Letter Em with Tail |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ӎ" U+04CE Cyrillic Small Letter Em with Tail |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ӎ" U+04CE Cyrillic Small Letter Em with Tail |
| 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 |