U+105BC "𐖼" Vithkuqi Small Letter Ze Unicode Character

U+105BC "𐖼" Vithkuqi Small Letter Ze is one of the letters from the Vithkuqi alphabet, a historical script invented in the 19th century by Naum Veqilharxhi for writing the Albanian language. This specific character represents the voiced alveolar fricative sound, similar to the English "z", and is the lowercase form of the corresponding uppercase letter in the Vithkuqi writing system. It was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Vithkuqi block to support the digital preservation and use of this endangered script, which once played a role in Albanian cultural and educational revival.

General Properties

Code Point	U+105BC
Version Added	14.0
Name	Vithkuqi Small Letter Ze
Block	Vithkuqi
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐖼
HTML Hex Encoding	𐖼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x96 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDDBC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000105BC
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\uddbc

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	"𐖕" U+10595 Vithkuqi Capital Letter Ze
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐖕" U+10595 Vithkuqi Capital Letter Ze
Uppercase Code Point	"𐖕" U+10595 Vithkuqi Capital Letter Ze
Titlecase Code Point	"𐖕" U+10595 Vithkuqi Capital Letter Ze
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
Script	Vithkuqi
Script Extensions	Vithkuqi
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