U+0511 "ԑ" Cyrillic Small Letter Reversed Ze Unicode Character

U+0511 "ԑ" Cyrillic Small Letter Reversed Ze is a glyph used in the Cyrillic script, primarily for the Enets and Khanty languages, where it represents a specific vowel sound, often described as a reduced or centralized vowel similar to the schwa. This character is a visual mirror image of the standard Cyrillic letter Ze (з), and its lowercase form is paired with an uppercase counterpart at U+0510 "Ԑ". As part of the Cyrillic Extended-A block, it was added to Unicode to support accurate orthography for these minority languages, helping preserve linguistic diversity in digital text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0511
Version Added	5.0
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Reversed Ze
Block	Cyrillic Supplement
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ԑ
HTML Hex Encoding	ԑ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD4 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0511
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000511
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0511

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	"Ԑ" U+0510 Cyrillic Capital Letter Reversed Ze
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ԑ" U+0510 Cyrillic Capital Letter Reversed Ze
Uppercase Code Point	"Ԑ" U+0510 Cyrillic Capital Letter Reversed Ze
Titlecase Code Point	"Ԑ" U+0510 Cyrillic Capital Letter Reversed Ze
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