U+A688 "Ꚉ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzze Unicode Character

U+A688 "Ꚉ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzze is a historical and non-Slavic variant of the Cyrillic script, representing a sound similar to the voiced affricate found in word-initial positions of some languages like Abkhaz. It was used in certain Cyrillic-based orthographies during the 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly for transcribing Caucasian languages, though it is now largely obsolete due to alphabet reforms. The letter visually resembles a combination of a "D" and a "Z" stacked or ligated together, reflecting its phonetic role as a unitary symbol distinct from the digraph "дз".

General Properties

Code Point	U+A688
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzze
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꚉ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꚉ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9A 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA688
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A688
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua688

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	"ꚉ" U+A689 Cyrillic Small Letter Dzze
Lowercase Code Point	"ꚉ" U+A689 Cyrillic Small Letter Dzze
Simple Case Folding	"ꚉ" U+A689 Cyrillic Small Letter Dzze
Case Folding	"ꚉ" U+A689 Cyrillic Small Letter Dzze
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꚉ" U+A689 Cyrillic Small Letter Dzze
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꚉ" U+A689 Cyrillic Small Letter Dzze
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