U+052C "Ԭ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dche Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

Ԭ

U+052C "Ԭ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dche is a glyph used in the Cyrillic script, specifically added to the Unicode standard to support the writing system of the Komi language, among other minority languages of Russia. It represents a specific sound, typically a palatalized or affricate consonant that can be approximated as a combination of "d" and "ch" or a similar voiced dental affricate, depending on the language. This letter is part of a broader effort to encode historical and modern Cyrillic characters that are necessary for accurate digital representation of diverse linguistic traditions. The character has a corresponding lowercase form, U+052D "ԭ", and its inclusion ensures that texts in languages requiring this distinct letter can be typed and displayed reliably in digital environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+052C
Version Added 7.0
Name Cyrillic Capital Letter Dche
Block Cyrillic Supplement
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding Ԭ
HTML Hex Encoding Ԭ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD4 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x052C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000052C
C/C++/Java Escape \u052c

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 "ԭ" U+052D Cyrillic Small Letter Dche
Lowercase Code Point "ԭ" U+052D Cyrillic Small Letter Dche
Simple Case Folding "ԭ" U+052D Cyrillic Small Letter Dche
Case Folding "ԭ" U+052D Cyrillic Small Letter Dche
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ԭ" U+052D Cyrillic Small Letter Dche
NFKC Simple Casefold "ԭ" U+052D Cyrillic Small Letter Dche
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