U+A693 "ꚓ" Cyrillic Small Letter Tche Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꚓ
U+A693 "ꚓ" Cyrillic Small Letter Tche is a relatively rare glyph used in the historic Cyrillic orthography of the Abkhaz language, where it represents a specific aspirated or ejective consonant sound distinct from the standard letter Т. This character belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-B block and was added to the Unicode standard in version 5.1, released in 2008, to support accurate textual representation and digital preservation of early 20th century Abkhaz texts. Its uppercase counterpart is U+A692 "Ꚓ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Tche.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A693 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Tche |
| Block | Cyrillic Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꚓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꚓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9A 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA693 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A693 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua693 |
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 | "Ꚓ" U+A692 Cyrillic Capital Letter Tche |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꚓ" U+A692 Cyrillic Capital Letter Tche |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꚓ" U+A692 Cyrillic Capital Letter Tche |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꚓ" U+A692 Cyrillic Capital Letter Tche |
| 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 |