U+04E1 "ӡ" Cyrillic Small Letter Abkhasian Dze Unicode Character

U+04E1 "ӡ" Cyrillic Small Letter Abkhasian Dze is a letter used in the Cyrillic script specifically for the Abkhaz language, where it represents the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate sound [d͡ʑ]. It is derived from the Cyrillic letter Ze (З з) with a descender, visually resembling a Latin "z" with a tail. This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-A block and is typically used in uppercase form as U+04E0 (Ӡ). In Abkhaz orthography, it is placed in the alphabet after the letter Ѕ and before Ж, and its sound corresponds to the Georgian letter ძ in loanwords. The letter is relatively rare outside of Abkhaz linguistic contexts, but it is essential for accurately writing native words in that language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+04E1
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Abkhasian Dze
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ӡ
HTML Hex Encoding	ӡ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD3 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x04E1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000004E1
C/C++/Java Escape	\u04e1

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	"Ӡ" U+04E0 Cyrillic Capital Letter Abkhasian Dze
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ӡ" U+04E0 Cyrillic Capital Letter Abkhasian Dze
Uppercase Code Point	"Ӡ" U+04E0 Cyrillic Capital Letter Abkhasian Dze
Titlecase Code Point	"Ӡ" U+04E0 Cyrillic Capital Letter Abkhasian Dze
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