U+A685 "ꚅ" Cyrillic Small Letter Zhwe Unicode Character

U+A685 "ꚅ" Cyrillic Small Letter Zhwe is a rare historical letter used in the Old Cyrillic script, specifically representing a specific type of zvuk or sound found in certain early Slavonic manuscripts. It is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block and is the lowercase form of the capital letter Zhwe, U+A684, which was employed in medieval texts to denote a palatalized or labialized variant of the sound typically rendered as "zh." This character is no longer used in any modern Cyrillic alphabet, making it a specialized typographic symbol of interest primarily to paleographers, linguists, and scholars studying the historical development of the Cyrillic writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A685
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Zhwe
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA685
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A685
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua685

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	"Ꚅ" U+A684 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhwe
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꚅ" U+A684 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhwe
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꚅ" U+A684 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhwe
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꚅ" U+A684 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhwe
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