U+1E057 "𞁗" Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Zhe Unicode Character

U+1E057 "𞁗" Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Zhe is a specialized typographic glyph from the Cyrillic Extended-D block, designed to represent the voiced retroflex fricative sound (like the "s" in "measure") in a small, subscript form used for linguistic notation or phonetic transcription. This character is part of a set of subscript Cyrillic letters intended for scholarly works, such as in Slavic studies or historical linguistics, where it can denote a reduced or secondary articulation without breaking the line of text. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that researchers and publishers can digitally reproduce precise phonetic details that were historically handwritten or set in custom fonts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E057
Version Added	15.0
Name	Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Zhe
Block	Cyrillic Extended-D
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Sub
Decomposition Mapping	"ж" U+0436 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞁗
HTML Hex Encoding	𞁗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0x81 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD838 0xDC57
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E057
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud838\udc57

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	"ж" U+0436 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ж" U+0436 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe
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