U+A684 "Ꚅ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhwe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꚅ
U+A684 "Ꚅ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhwe is a rare and historic letter from the Cyrillic script, specifically used in the Old Abkhaz language during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It represents a voiced retroflex sibilant affricate sound, similar to the "j" in English "judge" but produced with the tongue curled back. This character was part of a larger set of modified Cyrillic letters created by linguists, such as Peter von Uslar, to accurately transcribe the distinct phonetic inventory of Abkhaz, though it eventually fell out of use with later alphabet reforms. Today, it is preserved in the Unicode standard primarily for scholarly and historical text representation, and its lowercase counterpart is U+A685.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A684 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhwe |
| Block | Cyrillic Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꚅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꚅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9A 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA684 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A684 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua684 |
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 | "ꚅ" U+A685 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhwe |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꚅ" U+A685 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhwe |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꚅ" U+A685 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhwe |
| Case Folding | "ꚅ" U+A685 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhwe |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꚅ" U+A685 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhwe |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꚅ" U+A685 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhwe |
| 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 |