U+A686 "Ꚇ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Cche Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꚇ
U+A686 "Ꚇ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Cche is a historical letter used in the Old Abkhazian alphabet, which was developed in the 19th century for writing the Abkhaz language. This character represents a specific consonant sound, typically a voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate, and is part of a larger set of Cyrillic letters created by scholars like Peter von Uslar to accurately transcribe the phonetic nuances of Caucasian languages. It appears in the Cyrillic Extended-B block and is primarily of interest to linguists, historians, and typographers working with rare scripts, as it has fallen out of modern usage with the adoption of standardized Cyrillic alphabets for Abkhaz.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A686 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Cche |
| Block | Cyrillic Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꚇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꚇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9A 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA686 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A686 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua686 |
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 | "ꚇ" U+A687 Cyrillic Small Letter Cche |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꚇ" U+A687 Cyrillic Small Letter Cche |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꚇ" U+A687 Cyrillic Small Letter Cche |
| Case Folding | "ꚇ" U+A687 Cyrillic Small Letter Cche |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꚇ" U+A687 Cyrillic Small Letter Cche |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꚇ" U+A687 Cyrillic Small Letter Cche |
| 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 |