U+0496 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHE WITH DESCENDER

The Unicode character U+0496, officially named CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHE WITH DESCENDER, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Cyrillic block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHE WITH RIGHT DESCENDER.

Categorized technically as a Uppercase Letter, this character typically falls under the Cyrillic script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.