U+04F3 "ӳ" Cyrillic Small Letter U with Double Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+04F3 "ӳ" Cyrillic Small Letter U with Double Acute is a specialized grapheme used primarily in the Chuvash language, where it represents a distinct vowel sound often transcribed as a high, rounded, and central or fronted vowel. This character is formed by adding a double acute accent above the standard Cyrillic letter U, which distinguishes it in written Chuvash from the plain ⟨у⟩ and indicates a specific phonetic quality crucial for correct pronunciation and orthography. It belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-A block in the Unicode standard, ensuring its proper digital representation and interchange across modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04F3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter U with Double Acute |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "у" U+0443 Cyrillic Small Letter U "̋" U+030B Combining Double Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ӳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ӳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD3 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04F3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004F3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04f3 |
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 | "Ӳ" U+04F2 Cyrillic Capital Letter U with Double Acute |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ӳ" U+04F2 Cyrillic Capital Letter U with Double Acute |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ӳ" U+04F2 Cyrillic Capital Letter U with Double Acute |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ӳ" U+04F2 Cyrillic Capital Letter U with Double Acute |
| 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 |