U+A691 "ꚑ" Cyrillic Small Letter Tsse Unicode Character

U+A691 "ꚑ" Cyrillic Small Letter Tsse is a rarely used letter from the extended Cyrillic alphabet, specifically designed to represent the consonant sound /t͡sː/ or a long affricate similar to "ts" in historical or dialectal contexts, primarily in the Abkhaz language. This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block, where it functions as the lowercase form corresponding to the uppercase letter U+A690 "Ꚑ". Its usage in modern digital text is very limited, appearing mainly in specialized linguistic documentation or historical orthography rather than in contemporary everyday writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A691
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Tsse
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ꚑ
HTML Hex Encoding	ꚑ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9A 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA691
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A691
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua691

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	"Ꚑ" U+A690 Cyrillic Capital Letter Tsse
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꚑ" U+A690 Cyrillic Capital Letter Tsse
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꚑ" U+A690 Cyrillic Capital Letter Tsse
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꚑ" U+A690 Cyrillic Capital Letter Tsse
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