U+04D5 "ӕ" Cyrillic Small Ligature A Ie Unicode Character

U+04D5 "ӕ" Cyrillic Small Ligature A Ie is a ligature used primarily in the Cyrillic alphabet for certain Slavic and non-Slavic languages, most notably in Komi, where it represents a distinct vowel sound between /a/ and /e/. This character is visually formed by combining the shapes of a Cyrillic "а" and "е" into a single grapheme, corresponding phonetically to the near-open front unrounded vowel or a similar central vowel. Its uppercase counterpart is U+04D4 "Ӕ", and its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation and text processing for languages that employ this linguistic distinction.

General Properties

Code Point	U+04D5
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Ligature A Ie
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ӕ
HTML Hex Encoding	ӕ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD3 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding	0x04D5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000004D5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u04d5

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	"Ӕ" U+04D4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature A Ie
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ӕ" U+04D4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature A Ie
Uppercase Code Point	"Ӕ" U+04D4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature A Ie
Titlecase Code Point	"Ӕ" U+04D4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature A Ie
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