U+A68C "Ꚍ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Twe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꚍ
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 |