U+A648 "Ꙉ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Djerv Unicode Character

U+A648 "Ꙉ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Djerv is a historical letter used in early Cyrillic alphabets, particularly in Old Church Slavonic and medieval Slavic manuscripts, where it represented a specific sound, often a palatalized /ɡ/ or /dʒ/, depending on the dialect. It belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-B block and is part of a pair with its lowercase counterpart, U+A649 "ꙉ". This character is rarely used in modern languages but appears in scholarly texts and digital typography for representing archaic Slavic orthography, especially in the context of Glagolitic to Cyrillic transliteration or documenting the phonological evolution of South Slavic languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A648
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Capital Letter Djerv
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꙉ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꙉ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x99 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA648
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A648
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua648

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	"ꙉ" U+A649 Cyrillic Small Letter Djerv
Lowercase Code Point	"ꙉ" U+A649 Cyrillic Small Letter Djerv
Simple Case Folding	"ꙉ" U+A649 Cyrillic Small Letter Djerv
Case Folding	"ꙉ" U+A649 Cyrillic Small Letter Djerv
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꙉ" U+A649 Cyrillic Small Letter Djerv
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꙉ" U+A649 Cyrillic Small Letter Djerv
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