U+0516 "Ԗ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Rha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

Ԗ

U+0516 "Ԗ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Rha is a rarely used letter from the Cyrillic script, specifically part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block designed for the Abkhaz language. It represents a voiced uvular fricative sound, similar to the French "r" in "Paris" or the German "r" in "rot," and is written as the Cyrillic letter Er (Р) with a descender attached to its lower right. Historically introduced during the early 20th century orthographic reforms for Abkhaz, this character is no longer employed in modern standard Abkhaz, which has since adopted a Latin-based or a different Cyrillic alphabet, leaving "Ԗ" as a historical and linguistic artifact rather than an active part of contemporary written communication.

General Properties

Code Point U+0516
Version Added 5.1
Name Cyrillic Capital Letter Rha
Block Cyrillic Supplement
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding Ԗ
HTML Hex Encoding Ԗ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD4 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0516
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000516
C/C++/Java Escape \u0516

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 "ԗ" U+0517 Cyrillic Small Letter Rha
Lowercase Code Point "ԗ" U+0517 Cyrillic Small Letter Rha
Simple Case Folding "ԗ" U+0517 Cyrillic Small Letter Rha
Case Folding "ԗ" U+0517 Cyrillic Small Letter Rha
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ԗ" U+0517 Cyrillic Small Letter Rha
NFKC Simple Casefold "ԗ" U+0517 Cyrillic Small Letter Rha
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