U+A681 "ꚁ" Cyrillic Small Letter Dwe Unicode Character

U+A681 "ꚁ" Cyrillic Small Letter Dwe is a rare and specialized letter used in certain historical or dialectal Cyrillic orthographies, particularly in the writing of the Abkhaz language where it represents a specific voiced alveolar affricate sound. Its uppercase counterpart is U+A680 (Ꚁ), and this character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block, which includes a variety of letters for non-Slavic languages that have been written with Cyrillic script. The Dwe letter is distinguished by its unique shape, combining elements of a standard Cyrillic Д (de) with a hook or tail, and it was primarily employed in 19th and early 20th century texts before being replaced by more standardized digraphs or alternative letters in modern orthographies.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A681
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Dwe
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA681
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A681
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua681

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	"Ꚁ" U+A680 Cyrillic Capital Letter Dwe
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꚁ" U+A680 Cyrillic Capital Letter Dwe
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꚁ" U+A680 Cyrillic Capital Letter Dwe
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꚁ" U+A680 Cyrillic Capital Letter Dwe
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