U+1E04B "𞁋" Modifier Letter Cyrillic Small Schwa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𞁋

U+1E04B "𞁋" Modifier Letter Cyrillic Small Schwa is a specialized typographic symbol used in certain extended Cyrillic writing systems to indicate a modified or reduced pronunciation of the schwa vowel sound. It belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-D block and functions as a diacritic-like modifier, often appearing after a base letter to denote a specific phonetic quality distinct from the full schwa letter. This character supports the accurate transcription of minority languages and dialects that require fine-grained vowel distinctions, particularly within the context of scholarly or liturgical texts. Its design is based on the lowercase Cyrillic schwa, but it is intentionally scaled and positioned to serve as a combining modifier without taking the full form of a standard letter.

General Properties

Code Point U+1E04B
Version Added 15.0
Name Modifier Letter Cyrillic Small Schwa
Block Cyrillic Extended-D
General Category Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Super
Decomposition Mapping "ә" U+04D9 Cyrillic Small Letter Schwa

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𞁋
HTML Hex Encoding 𞁋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9E 0x81 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD838 0xDC4B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001E04B
C/C++/Java Escape \ud838\udc4b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Lowercase Yes
Other Lowercase Yes
Case Ignorable Yes
Cased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ә" U+04D9 Cyrillic Small Letter Schwa
NFKC Simple Casefold "ә" U+04D9 Cyrillic Small Letter Schwa
Script Cyrillic
Script Extensions Cyrillic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Diacritic Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break Lower