U+A682 "Ꚃ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzwe Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A682 "Ꚃ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzwe is a specialized letter from the Cyrillic script, representing a complex consonant sound akin to the voiced affricate /d͡zʷ/ or a similar palatalized or labialized "dz" sound, and it was historically used in certain Old Cyrillic or extended Cyrillic orthographies, particularly in manuscripts or alphabets designed for non-Slavic languages within the former Soviet Union. This character belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-B block and is part of a set of characters intended to support phonetic transcription or the precise representation of specific phonetic contrasts found in languages like Abkhaz or other Caucasian languages, though its actual usage in modern digital text is extremely rare. Its lowercase counterpart is U+A683, and the letter serves as a notable example of how the Unicode standard preserves and makes accessible niche historical and linguistic glyphs that are not part of mainstream modern alphabets.

General Properties

Code Point U+A682
Version Added 5.1
Name Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzwe
Block Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding Ꚃ
HTML Hex Encoding Ꚃ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x9A 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA682
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A682
C/C++/Java Escape \ua682

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 "ꚃ" U+A683 Cyrillic Small Letter Dzwe
Lowercase Code Point "ꚃ" U+A683 Cyrillic Small Letter Dzwe
Simple Case Folding "ꚃ" U+A683 Cyrillic Small Letter Dzwe
Case Folding "ꚃ" U+A683 Cyrillic Small Letter Dzwe
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ꚃ" U+A683 Cyrillic Small Letter Dzwe
NFKC Simple Casefold "ꚃ" U+A683 Cyrillic Small Letter Dzwe
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