U+1C85 "ᲅ" Cyrillic Small Letter Three-Legged Te Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1C85 "ᲅ" Cyrillic Small Letter Three-Legged Te is a variant form of the Cyrillic letter Te, historically used in certain Old Church Slavonic manuscripts and early printed texts to distinguish specific phonetic or orthographic contexts. Its distinctive three legged shape, resembling a lowercase "t" with an extra descending stroke, was employed in medieval Slavic writing systems, particularly in the Glagolitic influenced Cyrillic scripts or as a stylistic alternative in some regional traditions. This character is part of the Unicode Cyrillic Extended C block and is distinguished from the standard Cyrillic Small Letter Te (т) by its unique graphical design, serving primarily a historical and scholarly purpose in representing precise textual forms for linguists, philologists, and digital preservation of ancient Slavic literature.

General Properties

Code Point U+1C85
Version Added 9.0
Name Cyrillic Small Letter Three-Legged Te
Block Cyrillic Extended-C
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᲅ
HTML Hex Encoding ᲅ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xB2 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1C85
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001C85
C/C++/Java Escape \u1c85

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 "Т" U+0422 Cyrillic Capital Letter Te
Simple Titlecase Code Point "Т" U+0422 Cyrillic Capital Letter Te
Uppercase Code Point "Т" U+0422 Cyrillic Capital Letter Te
Titlecase Code Point "Т" U+0422 Cyrillic Capital Letter Te
Simple Case Folding "т" U+0442 Cyrillic Small Letter Te
Case Folding "т" U+0442 Cyrillic Small Letter Te
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
Changes When Titlecased Yes
Changes When Uppercased Yes
NFKC Casefold "т" U+0442 Cyrillic Small Letter Te
NFKC Simple Casefold "т" U+0442 Cyrillic Small Letter Te
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