U+0497 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZHE WITH DESCENDER

The Unicode character U+0497, officially named CYRILLIC SMALL 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 SMALL LETTER ZHE WITH RIGHT DESCENDER.

Categorized technically as a Lowercase 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.