U+A645 "ꙅ" Cyrillic Small Letter Reversed Dze Unicode Character

U+A645 "ꙅ" Cyrillic Small Letter Reversed Dze is a historical letter used in medieval Slavic manuscripts, particularly in early Glagolitic-derived Cyrillic texts, where it represents a sound similar to the modern affricate /dz/. This character is classified as a typographic variant of the standard Cyrillic dze (Ѕ), distinguished by its reversed, mirrored orientation. Though it is rarely employed in contemporary writing, it is encoded in Unicode to support scholarly analysis, digital preservation, and accurate representation of Old Church Slavonic and other early Cyrillic scripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A645
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Reversed Dze
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA645
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A645
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua645

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	"Ꙅ" U+A644 Cyrillic Capital Letter Reversed Dze
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꙅ" U+A644 Cyrillic Capital Letter Reversed Dze
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꙅ" U+A644 Cyrillic Capital Letter Reversed Dze
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꙅ" U+A644 Cyrillic Capital Letter Reversed Dze
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