U+04DD "ӝ" Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Diaeresis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ӝ
U+04DD "ӝ" Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Diaeresis is a modified version of the standard Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж), where the diaeresis (two dots) placed above the character indicates a distinct pronunciation, typically palatalization or a softening of the consonant sound. This letter is primarily used in the Udmurt and some other Finno-Ugric languages written with the Cyrillic script, where it represents a voiced postalveolar affricate sound similar to the "j" in "judge" but with a palatalized quality. It allows these languages to accurately transcribe phonemes not present in standard Russian, supporting linguistic precision in written communication and cultural preservation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04DD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Diaeresis |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ж" U+0436 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe "̈" U+0308 Combining Diaeresis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ӝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ӝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD3 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04DD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004DD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04dd |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ӝ" U+04DC Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Diaeresis |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ӝ" U+04DC Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Diaeresis |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ӝ" U+04DC Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Diaeresis |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ӝ" U+04DC Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Diaeresis |
| 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 |