U+0503 "ԃ" Cyrillic Small Letter Komi Dje Unicode Character

U+0503 "ԃ" Cyrillic Small Letter Komi Dje is a letter used in the Cyrillic script specifically for writing the Komi language, where it represents a voiced dental or alveolar affricate sound similar to the English 'j' in "judge" but with a softly palatalized quality. It is the lowercase form of the uppercase character U+0502 "Ԃ", and its shape resembles a Cyrillic "д" with a distinctive descending tail or hook on the left side. This character belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-B block of Unicode and was added as part of the standard to support the orthographic needs of Komi and other minority languages in Russia.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0503
Version Added	3.2
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Komi Dje
Block	Cyrillic Supplement
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ԃ
HTML Hex Encoding	ԃ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD4 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0503
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000503
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0503

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	"Ԃ" U+0502 Cyrillic Capital Letter Komi Dje
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ԃ" U+0502 Cyrillic Capital Letter Komi Dje
Uppercase Code Point	"Ԃ" U+0502 Cyrillic Capital Letter Komi Dje
Titlecase Code Point	"Ԃ" U+0502 Cyrillic Capital Letter Komi Dje
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