U+0506 "Ԇ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Komi Dzje Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ԇ
U+0506 "Ԇ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Komi Dzje is a letter used in the historical Cyrillic orthography for the Komi language, representing a voiced alveolar affricate sound similar to the English "dz" in "adze". It belongs to the Cyrillic Supplement block and was added to the Unicode standard in version 3.0, released in 1999, to support the written transcription of Komi dialects. The character appears as a distinctive ligature-like form that combines elements of a Cyrillic "D" and "Z", reflecting its phonetic composition. Today, it is rarely used in modern Komi writing but remains important for scholarly work and digital preservation of historical texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0506 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Komi Dzje |
| Block | Cyrillic Supplement |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ԇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ԇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD4 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0506 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000506 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0506 |
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 | "ԇ" U+0507 Cyrillic Small Letter Komi Dzje |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ԇ" U+0507 Cyrillic Small Letter Komi Dzje |
| Simple Case Folding | "ԇ" U+0507 Cyrillic Small Letter Komi Dzje |
| Case Folding | "ԇ" U+0507 Cyrillic Small Letter Komi Dzje |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ԇ" U+0507 Cyrillic Small Letter Komi Dzje |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ԇ" U+0507 Cyrillic Small Letter Komi Dzje |
| 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 |