U+04AB Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender
U+04AB was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Cyrillic in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Cyrillic script. Its uppercase variant is Cyrillic Capital Letter Es with Descender and its titlecase variant is Cyrillic Capital Letter Es with Descender.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+04AB forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The or Es with Descender (Ҫ ҫ; italics: Ҫ ҫ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. The name the is pronounced [θɛ], like the pronunciation of ⟨the⟩ in "theft". In Unicode, this letter is called "Es with descender". In Chuvash, it looks identical to the Latin letter C with cedilla (Ç ç Ç ç). Occasionally, it also has the hook diacritic curved rightward like an ogonek, as in the SVG image shown in the sidebar. In many fonts, the character hooks to the left.
The is used in the alphabets of the Bashkir, Chuvash, Enets and Nganasan languages.
- In Bashkir, it represents the voiceless dental fricative /θ/ (th as in thin).
- In Chuvash, it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative /ɕ/ (somewhat like sh as in ship).
- In Enets, it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative /ɕ/ (pronunciation above).
- In Nganasan, it represents the voiceless dental fricative /θ/ (pronunciation above).
It is usually romanized as 'ś', 'ş', 'θ' or 'þ'.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 1195 |
| UTF-8 | D2 AB |
| UTF-16 | 04 AB |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 04 AB |
| URL-Quoted | %D2%AB |
| HTML hex reference | ҫ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ò« |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 DB 39 |
| Encoding: PTCP154 (hex bytes) | BE |
| LATEX | \cyrchar\cyrsdsc |
| Adobe Glyph List | esdescendercyrillic |
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES WITH DESCENDER | |
| CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES CEDILLA | |
| Cyrillic | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Cyrillic | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender | |
| ✔ | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Es with Descender | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Es with Descender | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Es with Descender | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Es with Descender | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender | |
| Yes | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender | |
| R |