U+A68E "Ꚏ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Tswe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+A68E "Ꚏ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Tswe is a rarely used letter from the extended Cyrillic script, historically employed in early Slavic alphabets for transcribing certain Old Church Slavonic or dialectal sounds, where it represents a ligature or variant of the standard Cyrillic "Тс" or "Ц" digraph, specifically indicating a dental affricate similar to "ts" with a palatal or sibilant quality. This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended B block and is primarily of interest to linguists, paleographers, and scholars studying historical manuscripts or minority language orthographies, as it helps accurately represent phonetic distinctions that later standardized Cyrillic forms did not preserve. Its usage is virtually nonexistent in modern Cyrillic alphabets, making it a specialized typographic artifact rather than a functional letter in contemporary communication.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
Ꚏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
Ꚏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEA 0x9A 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xA68E |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000A68E |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ua68e |
Unicode Properties