U+04D8 "Ә" Cyrillic Capital Letter Schwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+04D8 "Ә" Cyrillic Capital Letter Schwa is a distinct letter used in several Cyrillic-based alphabets, most notably in the Azerbaijani, Tatar, and Bashkir languages, where it represents a near-open central vowel sound similar to the "a" in the English word "about." It visually resembles a reversed or turned Latin capital letter E, and its lowercase counterpart is U+04D9 "ә." This character is a key part of the orthographic systems for these languages, allowing them to accurately transcribe vowel sounds not present in standard Russian Cyrillic.
General Properties
Code Point
U+04D8
Name
Cyrillic Capital Letter Schwa
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ә
HTML Hex Encoding
Ә
UTF-8 Encoding
0xD3 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding
0x04D8
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000004D8
C/C++/Java Escape
\u04d8
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