U+2DF3 "ⷳ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Shcha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⷳ
U+2DF3 "ⷳ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Shcha is a diacritical mark used in the extended Cyrillic script to modify the pronunciation of a base character, typically representing the sound of the Cyrillic letter Shcha (Щ or щ) in a combining form. It belongs to the Combining Cyrillic Supplement block and is designed to be placed over or attached to another letter, often in historical or phonetic transcriptions for Slavic languages and liturgical texts. Its purpose is to indicate a palatalized or affricate sound similar to the English "shch" combination, without standing alone as an independent character.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DF3 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Cyrillic Letter Shcha |
| 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 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DF3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DF3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2df3 |