U+A640 "Ꙁ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Zemlya Unicode Character
U+A640 "Ꙁ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Zemlya is a glyph from the Cyrillic Extended-B block, representing an archaic letter used in early Cyrillic and Church Slavonic writing, primarily found in medieval manuscripts where it denoted the sound /z/ and held a numeric value of 9 in the Cyrillic numeral system. Its name, "Zemlya," means "earth" or "land" in Slavic languages, and it is often distinguished from the standard modern Cyrillic letter Ze (З) by its ornate, tail-like curved lower stroke, which gives it a distinctive visual appearance. This character is now largely obsolete, but it appears in scholarly editions of historical texts and liturgical works, serving as a key element for paleographers and linguists studying the evolution of Slavic alphabets.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A640 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Zemlya |
| Block | Cyrillic Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꙁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꙁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x99 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA640 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A640 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua640 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ꙁ" U+A641 Cyrillic Small Letter Zemlya |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꙁ" U+A641 Cyrillic Small Letter Zemlya |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꙁ" U+A641 Cyrillic Small Letter Zemlya |
| Case Folding | "ꙁ" U+A641 Cyrillic Small Letter Zemlya |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꙁ" U+A641 Cyrillic Small Letter Zemlya |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꙁ" U+A641 Cyrillic Small Letter Zemlya |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |