U+04F7 "ӷ" Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Descender Unicode Character

U+04F7 "ӷ" Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Descender is a variant of the Cyrillic letter Ghe, distinguished by a small downward hook or tail added to its lower right side, known as a descender. It is primarily used in several languages of the Caucasus region, such as Abkhaz and Nivkh, where it represents a voiced velar fricative sound, similar to the "g" in some Western European languages or the voiced equivalent of the "ch" in "loch." This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block of Unicode, ensuring its digital representation for accurate text processing and typography in these linguistic contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+04F7
Version Added	4.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Descender
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ӷ
HTML Hex Encoding	ӷ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD3 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0x04F7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000004F7
C/C++/Java Escape	\u04f7

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	"Ӷ" U+04F6 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ghe with Descender
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ӷ" U+04F6 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ghe with Descender
Uppercase Code Point	"Ӷ" U+04F6 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ghe with Descender
Titlecase Code Point	"Ӷ" U+04F6 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ghe with Descender
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