U+1E050 "𞁐" Modifier Letter Cyrillic Small Palochka Unicode Character

U+1E050 "𞁐" Modifier Letter Cyrillic Small Palochka is a diacritic mark used in the Cyrillic alphabet, specifically in the writing systems of some Caucasian languages such as Chechen and Ingush. It represents a modified form of the palochka, a Latin-like uppercase letter used to indicate a glottal stop or pharyngealization, and its small form serves as a modifier to adjust the pronunciation of a preceding consonant in phonetic transcription or orthographic representation. This character was added to Unicode as part of the Cyrillic Extended-D block to support accurate representation of these languages' phonological features.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E050
Version Added	15.0
Name	Modifier Letter Cyrillic Small Palochka
Block	Cyrillic Extended-D
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"ӏ" U+04CF Cyrillic Small Letter Palochka

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞁐
HTML Hex Encoding	𞁐
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0x81 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD838 0xDC50
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E050
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud838\udc50

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	"ӏ" U+04CF Cyrillic Small Letter Palochka
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ӏ" U+04CF Cyrillic Small Letter Palochka
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