Ә
The Ә (lowercase letter ә ), also called (Cyrillic) Schwa , is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet that is used in many languages. The sound value is æ in Bashkir, Kazakh and Tatar , in Dungan ɤ , in Kalmyk and Kurdish ə and in Abkhazian ʷ . In the Abkhazian language, letter combinations with ә count as separate letters and have their own positions in the alphabet. 
Character encoding
| default | Uppercase Ә | Minuscule ә | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | Codepoint | U + 04D8 | U + 04D9 | 
| Surname | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SCHWA | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SCHWA | |
| UTF-8 | D3 98 | D3 99 | |
| XML / XHTML | decimal | 
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ә
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| hexadecimal | 
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ә
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