U+051C "Ԝ" Cyrillic Capital Letter We Unicode Character

U+051C "Ԝ" Cyrillic Capital Letter We is a relatively rare letter used in the Cyrillic alphabets for certain minority languages, most notably the Yaghnobi language of Tajikistan and the Kurdish language written in Cyrillic script. This character represents a voiced labial-velar approximant sound, similar to the English "w" as in "water," and it is the capital form of the lowercase "ԝ." Its inclusion in the Unicode standard helps support the accurate digital representation and preservation of these languages, although it is not found in the standard Cyrillic alphabet used for Russian or most other Slavic languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+051C
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Capital Letter We
Block	Cyrillic Supplement
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ԝ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ԝ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD4 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x051C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000051C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u051c

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	"ԝ" U+051D Cyrillic Small Letter We
Lowercase Code Point	"ԝ" U+051D Cyrillic Small Letter We
Simple Case Folding	"ԝ" U+051D Cyrillic Small Letter We
Case Folding	"ԝ" U+051D Cyrillic Small Letter We
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ԝ" U+051D Cyrillic Small Letter We
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ԝ" U+051D Cyrillic Small Letter We
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