U+A68F "ꚏ" Cyrillic Small Letter Tswe Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A68F "ꚏ" Cyrillic Small Letter Tswe is a lesser-known letter from the extended Cyrillic alphabet, primarily used in historical or transliteration contexts for certain Slavic or non-Slavic languages, such as the Abkhaz language, where it represents a specific affricate sound akin to a combined "ts" and "v" or a labialized dental affricate. Its uppercase counterpart is U+A68E, and this character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block, which supports various archaic or minority writing systems. The letter is rarely found in modern digital texts, but it serves an important role in preserving the phonetic distinctions of languages that utilize a broader Cyrillic inventory beyond the standard Russian alphabet.

General Properties

Code Point U+A68F
Version Added 5.1
Name Cyrillic Small Letter Tswe
Block Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꚏ
HTML Hex Encoding ꚏ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x9A 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA68F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A68F
C/C++/Java Escape \ua68f

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 "Ꚏ" U+A68E Cyrillic Capital Letter Tswe
Simple Titlecase Code Point "Ꚏ" U+A68E Cyrillic Capital Letter Tswe
Uppercase Code Point "Ꚏ" U+A68E Cyrillic Capital Letter Tswe
Titlecase Code Point "Ꚏ" U+A68E Cyrillic Capital Letter Tswe
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