U+04CE "ӎ" Cyrillic Small Letter Em with Tail Unicode Character

U+04CE "ӎ" Cyrillic Small Letter Em with Tail is a modified variant of the standard Cyrillic letter Em, distinguished by a short tail or descender attached to the bottom of its right stem. This letter is used in the Cyrillic orthographies of certain minority languages, particularly in Russia, such as in the Khanty and Kildin Sami alphabets, where it typically represents a voiced bilabial fricative sound or a similar labial consonant distinct from the plain bilabial nasal or plosive. Its creation and inclusion in Unicode help provide proper digital representation and text processing support for these linguistic systems, ensuring accurate encoding and display in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+04CE
Version Added	3.2
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Em with Tail
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ӎ
HTML Hex Encoding	ӎ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD3 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x04CE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000004CE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u04ce

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	"Ӎ" U+04CD Cyrillic Capital Letter Em with Tail
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ӎ" U+04CD Cyrillic Capital Letter Em with Tail
Uppercase Code Point	"Ӎ" U+04CD Cyrillic Capital Letter Em with Tail
Titlecase Code Point	"Ӎ" U+04CD Cyrillic Capital Letter Em with Tail
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