U+A687 "ꚇ" Cyrillic Small Letter Cche Unicode Character

U+A687 "ꚇ" Cyrillic Small Letter Cche is a historic letter from the Cyrillic script, primarily used in the early modern era for transcribing certain non-Slavic languages, most notably in the Russian alphabet reform projects of the 19th century. This character represents a digraph-like sound, often transcribed as a 'tsh' or 'ch' sound with a palatalized or affricate quality, and it was included in the Cyrillic Extended-B block to support scholarly and historical text restoration. While it is not used in standard modern Cyrillic alphabets, it remains significant for linguistic studies of ancient manuscripts and phonetic alphabets developed for indigenous languages of the Russian Empire.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A687
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Cche
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA687
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A687
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua687

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	"Ꚇ" U+A686 Cyrillic Capital Letter Cche
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꚇ" U+A686 Cyrillic Capital Letter Cche
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꚇ" U+A686 Cyrillic Capital Letter Cche
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꚇ" U+A686 Cyrillic Capital Letter Cche
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