U+0476 "Ѷ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Izhitsa with Double Grave Accent Unicode Character
U+0476 "Ѷ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Izhitsa with Double Grave Accent is a historical and highly specialized typographic glyph used in certain Old Church Slavonic and early Cyrillic manuscripts to represent the letter Izhitsa (Ѵ) when it required a double grave accent for phonetic or orthographic reasons, typically indicating a specific stress or tone in liturgical or scholarly texts. This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-A block and is rarely encountered in modern digital writing, serving instead as a relic of complex diacritic systems employed in medieval Slavic printing and paleography. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that researchers, linguists, and historians can accurately reproduce and study ancient texts without losing the precise graphic details that convey linguistic information.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0476 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Izhitsa with Double Grave Accent |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Izhitsa Double Grave |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ѵ" U+0474 Cyrillic Capital Letter Izhitsa "̏" U+030F Combining Double Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ѷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ѷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD1 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0476 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000476 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0476 |