U+A697 "ꚗ" Cyrillic Small Letter Shwe Unicode Character

U+A697 "ꚗ" Cyrillic Small Letter Shwe is a rarely used letter from the Cyrillic script, specifically found in historical alphabets for certain Caucasian languages such as Abkhaz. It represents a sound similar to the voiced labiodental fricative, akin to the English "v" but produced with a rounded, whistled quality, and appears only in limited scholarly or liturgical contexts, as it is not part of modern standardized Cyrillic. Its capital counterpart is U+A696 "Ꚗ", and the character was added to the Unicode Standard to support the digital preservation of old texts and linguistic documentation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A697
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Shwe
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA697
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A697
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua697

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	"Ꚗ" U+A696 Cyrillic Capital Letter Shwe
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꚗ" U+A696 Cyrillic Capital Letter Shwe
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꚗ" U+A696 Cyrillic Capital Letter Shwe
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꚗ" U+A696 Cyrillic Capital Letter Shwe
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