U+04DA "Ӛ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Schwa with Diaeresis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ӛ
U+04DA "Ӛ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Schwa with Diaeresis is a specific glyph used primarily in the Cyrillic writing systems for certain minority languages, most notably in the Khanty and Komi languages of Russia. It represents a central, reduced vowel sound, similar to the schwa, with the diaeresis (two dots above) indicating that the vowel is pronounced distinctly, rather than being subject to reduction or assimilation in unstressed positions. This character is distinct from the plain Cyrillic Schwa (Ә) and is an essential part of the orthography for these languages, helping to mark phonemic contrasts that are crucial for accurate pronunciation and comprehension.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04DA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Schwa with Diaeresis |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ә" U+04D8 Cyrillic Capital Letter Schwa "̈" U+0308 Combining Diaeresis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ӛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ӛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD3 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04DA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004DA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04da |
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 | "ӛ" U+04DB Cyrillic Small Letter Schwa with Diaeresis |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ӛ" U+04DB Cyrillic Small Letter Schwa with Diaeresis |
| Simple Case Folding | "ӛ" U+04DB Cyrillic Small Letter Schwa with Diaeresis |
| Case Folding | "ӛ" U+04DB Cyrillic Small Letter Schwa with Diaeresis |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ӛ" U+04DB Cyrillic Small Letter Schwa with Diaeresis |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ӛ" U+04DB Cyrillic Small Letter Schwa 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 |