U+1E058 "𞁘" Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Ze Unicode Character

U+1E058 "𞁘" Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Ze is a specialized typographic symbol from the Cyrillic Extended-D block, designed to represent a subscript form of the Cyrillic small letter Ze (з) for use in historical and linguistic notation. This character is primarily employed in Slavic paleography and philology to indicate reduced or weak vowels, such as the yer sound, in Old Church Slavonic and other early Cyrillic manuscripts where subscript letters denote specific phonetic modifications. Its encoding allows digital representation of these ancient texts with precision, preserving orthographic details that are essential for scholarly analysis and accurate transcription.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E058
Version Added	15.0
Name	Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Ze
Block	Cyrillic Extended-D
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Sub
Decomposition Mapping	"з" U+0437 Cyrillic Small Letter Ze

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞁘
HTML Hex Encoding	𞁘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0x81 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD838 0xDC58
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E058
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud838\udc58

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	"з" U+0437 Cyrillic Small Letter Ze
NFKC Simple Casefold	"з" U+0437 Cyrillic Small Letter Ze
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