U+A643 "ꙃ" Cyrillic Small Letter Dzelo Unicode Character

U+A643 "ꙃ" Cyrillic Small Letter Dzelo is a historic letter from the early Cyrillic alphabet, used primarily in Old Church Slavonic manuscripts to represent the sound /dz/. This character is the lowercase form of the uppercase U+A642 "Ꙃ", and it belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-B block, having been added to the Unicode standard as part of version 5.1 in 2008. Unlike the modern Cyrillic letter з (ze), which typically denotes a /z/ sound, Dzelo historically functioned as a distinct phoneme or allophone, though it gradually fell out of use in most Slavic languages and was replaced by other letters or digraphs.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A643
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Dzelo
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA643
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A643
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua643

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	"Ꙃ" U+A642 Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzelo
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꙃ" U+A642 Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzelo
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꙃ" U+A642 Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzelo
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꙃ" U+A642 Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzelo
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