U+A641 "ꙁ" Cyrillic Small Letter Zemlya Unicode Character

U+A641 "ꙁ" Cyrillic Small Letter Zemlya is a historical glyph used in the early Cyrillic alphabet, specifically representing the letter Zemlya, which was one of several variant forms for the sound /z/ in Old Church Slavonic and early Slavic manuscripts. It is visually distinct from the more common Cyrillic letter Ze (З з), featuring a rounded, tail-like descender, and was employed primarily in medieval Bulgarian and Serbian texts before falling out of standard use. This character belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-B block and serves as a valuable resource for scholars studying paleography, historical linguistics, and the evolution of Slavic writing systems.