U+04D9 "ә" Cyrillic Small Letter Schwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ә
U+04D9 "ә" Cyrillic Small Letter Schwa is a distinct letter used in several Cyrillic-based alphabets, most notably for languages in the Caucasus region and Central Asia, such as Azerbaijani, Bashkir, and Kazakh. It represents a near-open central unrounded vowel sound, similar to the 'a' in the English word "about." While its shape resembles the Latin schwa character, it is a separate glyph within the Cyrillic block, often appearing as a rounded, reversed 'e' that is essential for accurately writing and pronouncing words in these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04D9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Schwa |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ә |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ә |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD3 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04D9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004D9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04d9 |
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 | "Ә" U+04D8 Cyrillic Capital Letter Schwa |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ә" U+04D8 Cyrillic Capital Letter Schwa |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ә" U+04D8 Cyrillic Capital Letter Schwa |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ә" U+04D8 Cyrillic Capital Letter Schwa |
| 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 |