U+1E064 "𞁤" Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Sha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𞁤

U+1E064 "𞁤" Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Sha is a specialized typographic symbol from the Cyrillic Extended-D block, representing a subscript form of the Cyrillic letter Sha (ш). It is designed for use in phonetic transcription and linguistic notation, particularly in historical or scholarly contexts where smaller subscript characters are needed to indicate specific phonetic nuances or diacritic-like modifications. Unlike standard uppercase or lowercase Cyrillic letters, this character is encoded as a separate glyph to ensure it appears correctly in digital text rendering, typically occupying a lower position within the text line. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates accurate representation of certain Old Church Slavonic, medieval Russian, or dialectological manuscripts where subscript notation was employed for abbreviated forms or secondary articulation details.

General Properties

Code Point U+1E064
Version Added 15.0
Name Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Sha
Block Cyrillic Extended-D
General Category Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Sub
Decomposition Mapping "ш" U+0448 Cyrillic Small Letter Sha

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𞁤
HTML Hex Encoding 𞁤
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9E 0x81 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD838 0xDC64
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001E064
C/C++/Java Escape \ud838\udc64

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 "ш" U+0448 Cyrillic Small Letter Sha
NFKC Simple Casefold "ш" U+0448 Cyrillic Small Letter Sha
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