U+A696 "Ꚗ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Shwe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꚗ
U+A696 "Ꚗ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Shwe is a rare and historical letter used in certain old Cyrillic alphabets, particularly for transcribing the Abkhaz language. It represents a specific consonant sound that can be described as a labialized voiceless postalveolar fricative, similar to a "sh" pronounced with rounded lips. This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block and was added to the Unicode standard to support scholarly and linguistic work on historical texts, though it is not used in modern standard writing systems. Its design resembles a standard Cyrillic Sha with a distinctive tail or hook feature, marking its unique phonetic value within the adaptation of the Cyrillic script for Caucasian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A696 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Shwe |
| Block | Cyrillic Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꚗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꚗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9A 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA696 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A696 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua696 |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ꚗ" U+A697 Cyrillic Small Letter Shwe |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꚗ" U+A697 Cyrillic Small Letter Shwe |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꚗ" U+A697 Cyrillic Small Letter Shwe |
| Case Folding | "ꚗ" U+A697 Cyrillic Small Letter Shwe |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꚗ" U+A697 Cyrillic Small Letter Shwe |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꚗ" U+A697 Cyrillic Small Letter Shwe |
| 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 | Upper |