U+0485 "҅" Combining Cyrillic Dasia Pneumata Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
҅
U+0485 "҅" Combining Cyrillic Dasia Pneumata is a diacritical mark used primarily in the historical orthography of Old Church Slavonic and certain early Cyrillic texts, where it appears as a superscript symbol resembling a small hook or accent placed above a letter. Derived from the Greek spiritus asper or rough breathing mark, it denotes an initial aspiration or a specifically articulated sound in liturgical and manuscript contexts, though it is largely obsolete in modern Cyrillic writing. This combining character is encoded for compatibility with digital representations of ancient Slavic documents, allowing scholars to accurately preserve and display the nuanced phonetic and textual features of early Cyrillic script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0485 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Combining Cyrillic Dasia Pneumata |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Non-Spacing Dasia Pneumata |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ҅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ҅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0485 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000485 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0485 |