U+2DE4 "ⷤ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Zhe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⷤ
U+2DE4 "ⷤ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Zhe is a diacritical mark used primarily in medieval Slavic manuscripts and modern scholarly transcriptions to modify a preceding base Cyrillic character, indicating a specific phonetic nuance or palatalization associated with the sound of the letter Zhe (Ж). This combining glyph appears in the Cyrillic Extended-B block and is designed to attach directly above or adjacent to its host character without taking up independent spacing. It serves an important role for linguists and paleographers studying historical texts, allowing precise representation of scribal variations and dialectal features in Old Church Slavonic and other early Cyrillic alphabets.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DE4 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Cyrillic Letter Zhe |
| Block | Cyrillic Extended-A |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⷤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⷤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB7 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DE4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DE4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2de4 |