U+A680 "Ꚁ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dwe Unicode Character

U+A680 "Ꚁ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dwe is a rarely used letter from the extended Cyrillic alphabet, primarily employed in the historical orthography of the Abkhaz language. It represents a voiced labiodental plosive sound, roughly equivalent to a combination of a "d" and "v" sound, and was part of the 19th century efforts to create a distinct writing system for Abkhaz based on the Cyrillic script. Despite its inclusion in Unicode, this letter is now largely obsolete in modern Abkhaz, which uses a different standard orthography, and it appears mainly in historical texts, linguistic documentation, or specialized digital typography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A680
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Capital Letter Dwe
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꚁ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꚁ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9A 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA680
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A680
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua680

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	"ꚁ" U+A681 Cyrillic Small Letter Dwe
Lowercase Code Point	"ꚁ" U+A681 Cyrillic Small Letter Dwe
Simple Case Folding	"ꚁ" U+A681 Cyrillic Small Letter Dwe
Case Folding	"ꚁ" U+A681 Cyrillic Small Letter Dwe
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꚁ" U+A681 Cyrillic Small Letter Dwe
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꚁ" U+A681 Cyrillic Small Letter Dwe
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