U+04DE "Ӟ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze with Diaeresis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ӟ
U+04DE "Ӟ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze with Diaeresis is a modified letter used in several Uralic languages, most notably Udmurt, where it represents the voiced alveolo-palatal fricative sound /ʑ/, similar to the "s" in "vision" but palatalized. Its visual form combines the standard Cyrillic Ze (З) with two dots or a diaeresis placed above the letter, distinguishing it from the plain Ze and other similar characters in the Cyrillic script. This character is essential for accurate orthography in Udmurt and other minority languages that employ it, ensuring correct representation of their phonetic and grammatical systems within digital text encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04DE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze with Diaeresis |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "З" U+0417 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze "̈" U+0308 Combining Diaeresis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ӟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ӟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD3 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04DE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004DE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04de |
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 | "ӟ" U+04DF Cyrillic Small Letter Ze with Diaeresis |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ӟ" U+04DF Cyrillic Small Letter Ze with Diaeresis |
| Simple Case Folding | "ӟ" U+04DF Cyrillic Small Letter Ze with Diaeresis |
| Case Folding | "ӟ" U+04DF Cyrillic Small Letter Ze with Diaeresis |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ӟ" U+04DF Cyrillic Small Letter Ze with Diaeresis |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ӟ" U+04DF Cyrillic Small Letter Ze 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 |