U+A640 "Ꙁ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Zemlya Unicode Character

U+A640 "Ꙁ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Zemlya is a glyph from the Cyrillic Extended-B block, representing an archaic letter used in early Cyrillic and Church Slavonic writing, primarily found in medieval manuscripts where it denoted the sound /z/ and held a numeric value of 9 in the Cyrillic numeral system. Its name, "Zemlya," means "earth" or "land" in Slavic languages, and it is often distinguished from the standard modern Cyrillic letter Ze (З) by its ornate, tail-like curved lower stroke, which gives it a distinctive visual appearance. This character is now largely obsolete, but it appears in scholarly editions of historical texts and liturgical works, serving as a key element for paleographers and linguists studying the evolution of Slavic alphabets.