U+A649 "ꙉ" Cyrillic Small Letter Djerv Unicode Character

U+A649 "ꙉ" Cyrillic Small Letter Djerv is a historical glyph from the early Cyrillic alphabet, representing a sound similar to the modern "đ" or soft "dj" found in Slavic languages like Serbian. It was used primarily in medieval manuscripts to denote a voiced palatal plosive or affricate, and it appears as a variant or predecessor of the letter "Ђ" in Serbian Cyrillic. This character fell out of common use after the orthographic reforms of the 18th and 19th centuries, but it was added to the Unicode standard for historical and scholarly text representation. Its form resembles a crossed or looped lowercase d, and it is distinct from the modern Cyrillic letter Dje (Ђ ђ).

General Properties

Code Point	U+A649
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Djerv
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA649
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A649
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua649

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	"Ꙉ" U+A648 Cyrillic Capital Letter Djerv
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꙉ" U+A648 Cyrillic Capital Letter Djerv
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꙉ" U+A648 Cyrillic Capital Letter Djerv
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꙉ" U+A648 Cyrillic Capital Letter Djerv
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