U+0523 "ԣ" Cyrillic Small Letter En with Middle Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ԣ
U+0523 "ԣ" Cyrillic Small Letter En with Middle Hook is a rarely used letter of the Cyrillic script, specifically designed for the representation of the Abkhaz language where it denotes the voiced uvular plosive sound, similar to a hard "g" in English but pronounced deeper in the throat. This character belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-A block and is composed of a standard Cyrillic "En" (н) with a small diacritic hook attached to the middle of its vertical stem, distinguishing it from the similar but voiceless letter "ԥ". Its inclusion in Unicode helps facilitate proper digital text encoding and preservation of Abkhaz orthography, though its practical usage is limited to scholarly works and some Abkhaz language resources.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0523 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter En with Middle Hook |
| Block | Cyrillic Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ԣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ԣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD4 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0523 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000523 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0523 |
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 | "Ԣ" U+0522 Cyrillic Capital Letter En with Middle Hook |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ԣ" U+0522 Cyrillic Capital Letter En with Middle Hook |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ԣ" U+0522 Cyrillic Capital Letter En with Middle Hook |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ԣ" U+0522 Cyrillic Capital Letter En with Middle Hook |
| 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 |