U+052D "ԭ" Cyrillic Small Letter Dche Unicode Character

U+052D "ԭ" Cyrillic Small Letter Dche is a relatively recently encoded letter used in the Cyrillic script, specifically representing a voiceless palatal affricate sound similar to the "ch" in the English word "chew." It is primarily found in the Abkhaz language, where it corresponds to the digraph "ӡә" in the standard Abkhaz alphabet, and its uppercase form is U+052C "Ԭ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dche. This character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of version 7.0 in 2014, expanding the repertoire for minority languages and historical orthographies that require a distinct glyph for this specific phonetic value.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ԭ
HTML Hex Encoding	ԭ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD4 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x052D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000052D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u052d

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	"Ԭ" U+052C Cyrillic Capital Letter Dche
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ԭ" U+052C Cyrillic Capital Letter Dche
Uppercase Code Point	"Ԭ" U+052C Cyrillic Capital Letter Dche
Titlecase Code Point	"Ԭ" U+052C Cyrillic Capital Letter Dche
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