U+04DC "Ӝ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Diaeresis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ӝ
U+04DC "Ӝ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Diaeresis is a variant of the standard Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж) modified with a diaeresis, or two dots, placed above it. This letter is used in the Cyrillic alphabets of several languages, most notably in the Komi language, where it represents the voiced postalveolar affricate sound [d͡ʒ], similar to the "j" in the English word "judge". It is distinct from other Zhe variants like the with-umlaut form and is encoded in the Unicode Standard’s Cyrillic block to support accurate digital representation of these minority languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04DC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Diaeresis |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ж" U+0416 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe "̈" U+0308 Combining Diaeresis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ӝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ӝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD3 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04dc |
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 | "ӝ" U+04DD Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Diaeresis |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ӝ" U+04DD Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Diaeresis |
| Simple Case Folding | "ӝ" U+04DD Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Diaeresis |
| Case Folding | "ӝ" U+04DD Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Diaeresis |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ӝ" U+04DD Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Diaeresis |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ӝ" U+04DD Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe 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 |