U+A641 "ꙁ" Cyrillic Small Letter Zemlya Unicode Character

U+A641 "ꙁ" Cyrillic Small Letter Zemlya is a historical glyph used in the early Cyrillic alphabet, specifically representing the letter Zemlya, which was one of several variant forms for the sound /z/ in Old Church Slavonic and early Slavic manuscripts. It is visually distinct from the more common Cyrillic letter Ze (З з), featuring a rounded, tail-like descender, and was employed primarily in medieval Bulgarian and Serbian texts before falling out of standard use. This character belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-B block and serves as a valuable resource for scholars studying paleography, historical linguistics, and the evolution of Slavic writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A641
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Zemlya
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA641
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A641
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua641

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ꙁ" U+A640 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zemlya
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꙁ" U+A640 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zemlya
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꙁ" U+A640 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zemlya
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꙁ" U+A640 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zemlya
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower