U+A648 "Ꙉ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Djerv Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+A648 "Ꙉ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Djerv is a historical letter used in early Cyrillic alphabets, particularly in Old Church Slavonic and medieval Slavic manuscripts, where it represented a specific sound, often a palatalized /ɡ/ or /dʒ/, depending on the dialect. It belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-B block and is part of a pair with its lowercase counterpart, U+A649 "ꙉ". This character is rarely used in modern languages but appears in scholarly texts and digital typography for representing archaic Slavic orthography, especially in the context of Glagolitic to Cyrillic transliteration or documenting the phonological evolution of South Slavic languages.
General Properties
Code Point
U+A648
Name
Cyrillic Capital Letter Djerv
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ꙉ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ꙉ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0x99 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA648
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A648
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua648
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