U+2DE5 "ⷥ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Ze Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⷥ
U+2DE5 "ⷥ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Ze is a combining diacritical mark used in the Cyrillic script, specifically representing the Cyrillic letter Ze (З, з) in a superscript or modifier form. It is part of the Cyrillic Extended-A block and is designed to be placed above a base character to modify its pronunciation, typically in scholarly transliteration or phonetic transcription of Slavic languages. This character allows for precise linguistic annotation by indicating a specific palatalization or sound alteration without creating a separate standalone glyph.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DE5 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Cyrillic Letter Ze |
| 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 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DE5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DE5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2de5 |