U+04F6 "Ӷ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ghe with Descender Unicode Character
U+04F6 "Ӷ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ghe with Descender is a modified letter from the Cyrillic script, primarily used in the writing systems of several minority languages within the Russian Federation, such as Abaza, Khakas, and Nivkh. This character is formed by taking the standard Cyrillic letter "Г" (Ghe) and adding a descender, which is a downward stroke that extends below the baseline. The descender indicates a specific phonetic value, typically representing a voiced uvular fricative or a voiced velar fricative sound, depending on the language. Its inclusion in Unicode helps support the accurate digital representation and preservation of these less widely used languages, ensuring that their unique phonological distinctions are maintained in electronic texts and communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04F6 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Ghe with Descender |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ӷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ӷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD3 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04F6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004F6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04f6 |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ӷ" U+04F7 Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Descender |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ӷ" U+04F7 Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Descender |
| Simple Case Folding | "ӷ" U+04F7 Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Descender |
| Case Folding | "ӷ" U+04F7 Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Descender |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ӷ" U+04F7 Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Descender |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ӷ" U+04F7 Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Descender |
| 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 |