U+A644 "Ꙅ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Reversed Dze Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꙅ
U+A644 "Ꙅ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Reversed Dze is a historical Cyrillic letter used primarily in early Slavic manuscripts and certain archaic orthographies to represent a specific sound or variant, typically corresponding to the modern "dz" sound. Its form is a mirror image of the standard Cyrillic letter Dze (Ѕ), and it belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-B block, which contains characters for Old Cyrillic and Church Slavonic texts. Unlike standard modern Cyrillic alphabets, this reversed variant is rarely used today, appearing mostly in scholarly editions of historical documents or in specialized typography aimed at preserving medieval writing traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A644 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Reversed Dze |
| Block | Cyrillic Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꙅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꙅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x99 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA644 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A644 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua644 |
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 | "ꙅ" U+A645 Cyrillic Small Letter Reversed Dze |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꙅ" U+A645 Cyrillic Small Letter Reversed Dze |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꙅ" U+A645 Cyrillic Small Letter Reversed Dze |
| Case Folding | "ꙅ" U+A645 Cyrillic Small Letter Reversed Dze |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꙅ" U+A645 Cyrillic Small Letter Reversed Dze |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꙅ" U+A645 Cyrillic Small Letter Reversed Dze |
| 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 |