U+04D8 "Ә" Cyrillic Capital Letter Schwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ә
U+04D8 "Ә" Cyrillic Capital Letter Schwa is a distinct letter used in several Cyrillic-based alphabets, most notably in the Azerbaijani, Tatar, and Bashkir languages, where it represents a near-open central vowel sound similar to the "a" in the English word "about." It visually resembles a reversed or turned Latin capital letter E, and its lowercase counterpart is U+04D9 "ә." This character is a key part of the orthographic systems for these languages, allowing them to accurately transcribe vowel sounds not present in standard Russian Cyrillic.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04D8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Schwa |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ә |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ә |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD3 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04D8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004D8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04d8 |
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 | "ә" U+04D9 Cyrillic Small Letter Schwa |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ә" U+04D9 Cyrillic Small Letter Schwa |
| Simple Case Folding | "ә" U+04D9 Cyrillic Small Letter Schwa |
| Case Folding | "ә" U+04D9 Cyrillic Small Letter Schwa |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ә" U+04D9 Cyrillic Small Letter Schwa |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ә" U+04D9 Cyrillic Small Letter Schwa |
| 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 |