U+0416 "Ж" Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+0416 "Ж" Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe is a letter used in multiple Cyrillic alphabets, including Russian, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian. It represents the voiced retroflex fricative sound similar to the "s" in "measure" or the "zh" in "Zhivago". The character is visually distinctive, appearing like an insect or snowflake with a central vertical stem flanked by two symmetrical curves, and its lowercase form is "ж". In Unicode, it is encoded in the Cyrillic block from U+0400 to U+04FF and has a typical uppercase design that varies slightly across fonts but retains its recognizable shape.
General Properties
Code Point
U+0416
Name
Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ж
HTML Hex Encoding
Ж
UTF-8 Encoding
0xD0 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0416
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000416
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0416
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Cyrillic