U+04D3 "ӓ" Cyrillic Small Letter A with Diaeresis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ӓ
U+04D3 "ӓ" Cyrillic Small Letter A with Diaeresis is a modified Cyrillic letter used primarily in several minority languages of Russia, such as Khanty, Mari, and Gagauz, where it represents a specific vowel sound distinct from the plain Cyrillic "а". The diacritic, known as a diaeresis or umlaut, indicates that the vowel is pronounced more fronted or centralized, often resembling the sound of the German "ä" or the English vowel in "cat" depending on the language. This character is encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the Cyrillic script block, ensuring its proper display and use in digital text across different platforms and software.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04D3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter A with Diaeresis |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "а" U+0430 Cyrillic Small Letter A "̈" U+0308 Combining Diaeresis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ӓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ӓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD3 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04D3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004D3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04d3 |
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 | "Ӓ" U+04D2 Cyrillic Capital Letter A with Diaeresis |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ӓ" U+04D2 Cyrillic Capital Letter A with Diaeresis |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ӓ" U+04D2 Cyrillic Capital Letter A with Diaeresis |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ӓ" U+04D2 Cyrillic Capital Letter A with Diaeresis |
| 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 |