U+04D2 "Ӓ" Cyrillic Capital Letter A with Diaeresis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+04D2 "Ӓ" Cyrillic Capital Letter A with Diaeresis is a grapheme used in several Cyrillic alphabets, most notably in the Khanty, Kildin Sami, and Hill Mari languages, where it represents a distinct vowel sound, typically a fronted or centralized 'a' sound often influenced by palatalization or umlaut-like phonological processes. It is formed by adding a diaeresis (two dots) above the standard Cyrillic letter A, which visually distinguishes it from its plain counterpart and signals a specifically modified pronunciation separate from the regular vowel /a/. This character serves an important role in maintaining orthographic precision within these minority languages, allowing for accurate written representation of their phonemic inventories.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04D2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter A with Diaeresis |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "А" U+0410 Cyrillic Capital Letter A "̈" U+0308 Combining Diaeresis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ӓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ӓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD3 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04D2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004D2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04d2 |
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 | "ӓ" U+04D3 Cyrillic Small Letter A with Diaeresis |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ӓ" U+04D3 Cyrillic Small Letter A with Diaeresis |
| Simple Case Folding | "ӓ" U+04D3 Cyrillic Small Letter A with Diaeresis |
| Case Folding | "ӓ" U+04D3 Cyrillic Small Letter A with Diaeresis |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ӓ" U+04D3 Cyrillic Small Letter A with Diaeresis |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ӓ" U+04D3 Cyrillic Small Letter A with Diaeresis |
| 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 |