U+A642 "Ꙃ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzelo Unicode Character
U+A642 "Ꙃ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzelo is a historical letter from the early Cyrillic script, used primarily in Old Church Slavonic and Old East Slavic manuscripts to represent the sound /dz/ (a voiced dental affricate). This character, along with its lowercase counterpart U+A643 "ꙃ", became obsolete after the 15th century as the Slavic languages simplified their orthography, with the sound it represented often merging into or being replaced by other letters like "З" or "Ц". Its inclusion in modern Unicode helps scholars accurately encode and reproduce medieval texts, preserving a distinct graphical form that resembles a ligature-like fusion of a "З" (Zemlya) and a tail or stroke, which once played a specific role in the historical development of Cyrillic writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A642 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzelo |
| Block | Cyrillic Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꙃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꙃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x99 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA642 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A642 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua642 |
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 | "ꙃ" U+A643 Cyrillic Small Letter Dzelo |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꙃ" U+A643 Cyrillic Small Letter Dzelo |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꙃ" U+A643 Cyrillic Small Letter Dzelo |
| Case Folding | "ꙃ" U+A643 Cyrillic Small Letter Dzelo |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꙃ" U+A643 Cyrillic Small Letter Dzelo |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꙃ" U+A643 Cyrillic Small Letter Dzelo |
| 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 |