U+A68D "ꚍ" Cyrillic Small Letter Twe Unicode Character

U+A68D "ꚍ" Cyrillic Small Letter Twe is a lesser known letter from the extended Cyrillic alphabet, historically used in Old Abkhaz or similar languages to represent a specific palatalized or labialized consonant sound that does not exist in standard modern Cyrillic. This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended B block, which was added to Unicode to support the transcription of various minority languages and historical texts. Its uppercase counterpart is U+A68C, and the letter generally appears only in specialized linguistic or historical documentation, as it is rarely found in contemporary writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A68D
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Twe
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA68D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A68D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua68d

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	"Ꚍ" U+A68C Cyrillic Capital Letter Twe
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꚍ" U+A68C Cyrillic Capital Letter Twe
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꚍ" U+A68C Cyrillic Capital Letter Twe
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꚍ" U+A68C Cyrillic Capital Letter Twe
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