U+A663 "ꙣ" Cyrillic Small Letter Soft De Unicode Character

U+A663 "ꙣ" Cyrillic Small Letter Soft De is a historical letter from the early Cyrillic alphabet, specifically a variant of the letter "De" (Д д) that incorporates a palatalization hook or tail, indicating a softened or palatalized pronunciation of the /d/ sound. This glyph was used in Old Church Slavonic and other early Slavic manuscripts to represent a soft or iotated dental stop, often before front vowels, and it belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-B block, which houses various archaic and rare characters. It is now considered obsolete in modern Cyrillic orthographies, surviving primarily in paleographic and linguistic contexts for the study of medieval Slavic texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A663
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Soft De
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA663
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A663
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua663

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	"Ꙣ" U+A662 Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft De
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꙣ" U+A662 Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft De
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꙣ" U+A662 Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft De
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꙣ" U+A662 Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft De
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