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U+04C2 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Breve

U+04C2 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+04C1 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Breve and its titlecase variant is Glyph for U+04C1 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Breve.

The glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+0436 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe, Glyph for U+0306 Combining Breve. 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+04C2 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Zhe with breve (Ӂ ӂ; italics: Ӂ ӂ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script created by Soviet linguists for the cyrillization of non-Slavic languages. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж Ж ж) by an addition of a breve.

Zhe with breve is currently used in Moldovan Cyrillic (in use in Pridnestrovie) to represent /d͡ʒ/, the voiced postalveolar affricate, like the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "jam". It thus corresponds to ⟨g⟩ before front vowels in the Romanian Latin alphabet. The letter Џ had been used for a similar sound in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, used until the 19th century.

Formerly, Zhe with breve was used in the Gagauz Cyrillic alphabet, in use from 1957 to 1993, also to represent /d͡ʒ/, corresponding to ⟨c⟩ in the Gagauz Latin alphabet.

Around the turn of the 20th century, it was also used in several Permyak alphabets to represent /d͡ʒ/, and in the Translation Committee's Abkhaz alphabet to represent [ʒ], the voiced postalveolar fricative, as in pleasure, which corresponds to Жь жь in the modern Abkhaz alphabet (Zhe alone represented, and still represents, [ʐ], the voiced retroflex fricative).

In its modern usage, Zhe with breve corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to the digraphs ⟨дж⟩ or ⟨чж⟩, or to the letters Che with descender (Ҷ ҷ), Che with vertical stroke (Ҹ ҹ), Dzhe (Џ џ), Khakassian Che (Ӌ ӌ), Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ), or Zhje (Җ җ). Traditionally, these characters were transliterated into the International English character set as ⟨dzh⟩, as in Birobidzhan; but more recently, especially in the US, they are transliterated as ⟨j⟩, as in 'jump'.

Representations

System Representation
1218
UTF-8 D3 82
UTF-16 04 C2
UTF-32 00 00 04 C2
URL-Quoted %D3%82
HTML hex reference ӂ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Ó‚
Adobe Glyph List zhebrevecyrillic

Related Characters

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZHE WITH BREVE
Unicode 1 Name (na1) CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT ZHE
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) canonical
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+0436 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe Glyph for U+0306 Combining Breve
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+04C2 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Breve
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+04C2 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Breve
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+04C1 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Breve
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+04C1 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Breve
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+04C1 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Breve
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+04C1 Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Breve
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+04C2 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Breve
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+04C2 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Breve
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) No
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+04C2 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Breve
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+04C2 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Breve
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
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+04C2 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Breve
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+04C2 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Breve
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R