U+A662 "Ꙣ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft De Unicode Character

U+A662 "Ꙣ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft De is a rarely used letter found in certain historical manuscripts and early printed texts of the Church Slavonic language. It represents a palatalized or "soft" version of the standard Cyrillic letter De (Д), typically transcribed as /dʲ/ in linguistic notation. This character emerged during the development of the Cyrillic script to accommodate specific phonetic distinctions in Old East Slavic and Church Slavonic, but it eventually fell out of common use with orthographic reforms. Today, it is primarily of interest to scholars of Slavic paleography and historical linguistics, as well as digital typographers working to preserve and reproduce ancient texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A662
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft De
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꙣ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꙣ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x99 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA662
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A662
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua662

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	"ꙣ" U+A663 Cyrillic Small Letter Soft De
Lowercase Code Point	"ꙣ" U+A663 Cyrillic Small Letter Soft De
Simple Case Folding	"ꙣ" U+A663 Cyrillic Small Letter Soft De
Case Folding	"ꙣ" U+A663 Cyrillic Small Letter Soft De
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꙣ" U+A663 Cyrillic Small Letter Soft De
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꙣ" U+A663 Cyrillic Small Letter Soft De
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