U+A68C "Ꚍ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Twe Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A68C "Ꚍ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Twe is a relatively rare and specialized letter used in certain historical Cyrillic alphabets, primarily designed for transcribing specific Caucasian languages, such as Abkhaz. It represents a voiceless labialized dental or alveolar plosive sound, similar to a "t" pronounced with rounded lips. This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block and is typically paired with its lowercase counterpart, U+A68D "ꚍ", to denote a distinct phoneme not covered by standard Cyrillic letters. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent the orthography of these languages, though it is not commonly encountered in modern mainstream texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+A68C
Version Added 5.1
Name Cyrillic Capital Letter Twe
Block Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding Ꚍ
HTML Hex Encoding Ꚍ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x9A 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA68C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A68C
C/C++/Java Escape \ua68c

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 "ꚍ" U+A68D Cyrillic Small Letter Twe
Lowercase Code Point "ꚍ" U+A68D Cyrillic Small Letter Twe
Simple Case Folding "ꚍ" U+A68D Cyrillic Small Letter Twe
Case Folding "ꚍ" U+A68D Cyrillic Small Letter Twe
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ꚍ" U+A68D Cyrillic Small Letter Twe
NFKC Simple Casefold "ꚍ" U+A68D Cyrillic Small Letter Twe
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