U+0517 "ԗ" Cyrillic Small Letter Rha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+0517 "ԗ" Cyrillic Small Letter Rha is a distinctive letter used in the Cyrillic script for certain minority languages, primarily within the Russian Federation, where it represents a voiceless uvular fricative sound, akin to a guttural "r" or a raspy "kh," and is part of the extended Cyrillic block designed for linguistic precision. This character is the lowercase form of the corresponding capital letter "Ԗ" and appears in writing systems for languages such as Abkhaz and Ossetian, though its usage has diminished in modern digital contexts and may be encountered in historical or scholarly texts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures the preservation and accurate representation of these linguistic traditions, facilitating electronic communication and data processing for the small communities that rely on it.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ԗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ԗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xD4 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x0517 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00000517 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u0517 |
Unicode Properties