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U+A685 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhwe

U+A685 was added to Unicode in version 5.1 (2008). It belongs to the block U+A640 to U+A69F Cyrillic Extended-B in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Cyrillic script. It is related to its uppercase variant Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhwe and its titlecase variant Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhwe.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+A685 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Lower for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Zhwe (Ꚅ ꚅ; italics: Ꚅ ꚅ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. The shape of the letter originated as a ligature of the Cyrillic letters Ze (З з З з) and Zhe (Ж ж Ж ж).
Zhwe was used in the Abkhaz language where it represented the voiced palato-alveolar sibilant /ʒʷ/. This was replaced by the digraph Жә.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	42629
UTF-8	EA 9A 85
UTF-16	A6 85
UTF-32	00 00 A6 85
URL-Quoted	%EA%9A%85
HTML hex reference	ꚅ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	êš…

Related Characters

Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhwe

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Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	5.1 (2008)
Unicode Name	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZHWE
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Script	Cyrillic
Bidirectional Category	Left To Right
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Cyrillic Small Letter Zhwe
Lowercase	✔
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Cyrillic Small Letter Zhwe
Lowercase Mapping	Cyrillic Small Letter Zhwe
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhwe
Uppercase Mapping	Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhwe
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhwe
Titlecase Mapping	Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhwe
Case Folding	Cyrillic Small Letter Zhwe
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✔
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✘
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✔
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✘
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✔
Changes When Uppercased	✔
Cased	✔
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✘
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✘
FC NFKC Closure	Cyrillic Small Letter Zhwe
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✔
ID Start	✔
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✘
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	Cyrillic Small Letter Zhwe
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Other Alphabetic	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✘
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Lower
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Alphabetic Letter
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✔
XID Start	✔
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Cyrillic Small Letter Zhwe
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Alphabetic
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Cyrillic Small Letter Zhwe
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	R