U+A683 "ꚃ" Cyrillic Small Letter Dzwe Unicode Character

U+A683 "ꚃ" Cyrillic Small Letter Dzwe is a historical Cyrillic letter that was used in the Old Cyrillic script to represent a specific consonant sound, typically a combination of the sounds [d͡z] or a soft affricate, though its exact pronunciation varied across early Slavic languages. This character forms the lowercase counterpart of U+A682 "Ꚃ" and is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block, which contains glyphs primarily utilized in Old Church Slavonic and certain early Slavonic manuscripts for specialized phonetic needs. Today, the letter is largely obsolete in modern Cyrillic alphabets but remains of interest to linguists and scholars studying the paleography and evolution of Cyrillic writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A683
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Dzwe
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA683
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A683
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua683

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	"Ꚃ" U+A682 Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzwe
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꚃ" U+A682 Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzwe
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꚃ" U+A682 Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzwe
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꚃ" U+A682 Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzwe
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