U+0486 "҆" Combining Cyrillic Psili Pneumata Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
҆
U+0486 "҆" Combining Cyrillic Psili Pneumata is a combining diacritical mark used in early Cyrillic script, primarily for liturgical and historical texts. It represents a breathing mark known as "psili" (smooth breathing), indicating the absence of an initial aspiration on a vowel or a specific phonetic quality in certain Church Slavonic manuscripts. This character is placed above a letter and modifies its pronunciation or linguistic function, often in conjunction with other diacritics to preserve the orthography of ancient or religious writing. Its use is largely archaic today, appearing mostly in scholarly editions of old Slavic literature and in some religious contexts within the Eastern Orthodox tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0486 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Combining Cyrillic Psili Pneumata |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Non-Spacing Psili 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 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0486 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000486 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0486 |