U+051D "ԝ" Cyrillic Small Letter We Unicode Character

U+051D "ԝ" Cyrillic Small Letter We is a distinctive glyph used in the Abkhaz language, where it represents the labialized voiced velar fricative sound /ɣʷ/. This letter is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block and is the lowercase form of the uppercase letter U+051C "Ԝ". Its design resembles a modified Cyrillic "Ш" (sha) but with a descender or a curved tail, setting it apart from standard Cyrillic characters. The letter was added to Unicode in 2006 as part of the expansion to support minority languages of the Caucasus region, ensuring proper digital representation for Abkhaz texts.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ԝ
HTML Hex Encoding	ԝ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD4 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x051D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000051D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u051d

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	"Ԝ" U+051C Cyrillic Capital Letter We
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ԝ" U+051C Cyrillic Capital Letter We
Uppercase Code Point	"Ԝ" U+051C Cyrillic Capital Letter We
Titlecase Code Point	"Ԝ" U+051C Cyrillic Capital Letter We
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