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Glyph for U+04AB
Source: Noto Sans

U+04AB Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender

U+04AB was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0400 to U+04FF Cyrillic in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Cyrillic script. Its uppercase variant is Glyph for U+04AA Cyrillic Capital Letter Es with Descender and its titlecase variant is Glyph for U+04AA 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/.
  • In Chuvash, it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative /ɕ/.
  • In Enets, it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative /ɕ/.
  • In Nganasan, it represents the voiceless dental fricative /θ/.

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«
LATEX \cyrchar\cyrsdsc
Adobe Glyph List esdescendercyrillic

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES WITH DESCENDER
Unicode 1 Name (na1) CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES CEDILLA
Block (blk) Cyrillic
General Category (gc) Lowercase Letter
Script (sc) Cyrillic
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+04AB Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender
Lowercase (Lower) ✔
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+04AB Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+04AB Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+04AA Cyrillic Capital Letter Es with Descender
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+04AA Cyrillic Capital Letter Es with Descender
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+04AA Cyrillic Capital Letter Es with Descender
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+04AA Cyrillic Capital Letter Es with Descender
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+04AB Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✔
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✔
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✔
Cased (Cased) ✔
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+04AB Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✔
ID Start (IDS) ✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+04AB Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+04AB Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Lower
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✔
XID Start (XIDS) ✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+04AB Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+04AB Cyrillic Small Letter Es with Descender
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R