What ꚁ means
It represented an Abkhaz d sound pronounced with rounded lips.
The earliest Cyrillic-based Abkhaz alphabet dates to 1862, and a Gospel sample from 1912 preserves Dwe. The letter served a practical purpose: writing Abkhaz in a Cyrillic-based alphabet.
Abkhaz writing later used Latin and Georgian scripts before returning to Cyrillic in 1954. In modern Abkhaz, Дә writes the corresponding sound; the sound remained while the spelling changed.
A historical letter for reading older Abkhaz texts.
For modern Abkhaz spelling, use Дә.
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Who writes ꚁ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꚁ show as a box?
Your font may not include this letter. Try a font that supports the extended Cyrillic characters.
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How to type or find ꚁ
- Search it as
- dwe · Abkhaz dwe · dʷ · old Abkhaz letter · Cyrillic dwe
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
ꚁCSS
\A681Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ꚁ
HTML hex
ꚁ
CSS content
content: "\A681";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%9A%81
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.