U+0487 "҇" Combining Cyrillic Pokrytie Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
҇
U+0487 "҇" Combining Cyrillic Pokrytie is a historical combining diacritical mark used in early Cyrillic manuscripts to indicate an abbreviation or a title, functioning as a superscript ligature or as a decorative cover over certain letters. It is part of the Cyrillic Extended-A block and is typically placed above a base character to signal that the text has been shortened or to denote a sacred or important word, such as in religious texts. This character is now obsolete in modern Cyrillic orthography but remains of interest to paleographers and scholars studying Old Church Slavonic and early Slavic written traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0487 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Cyrillic Pokrytie |
| 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 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0487 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000487 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0487 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Joining Type | Transparent |
| Line Break | Combining Mark |
| Case Ignorable | Yes |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic Glagolitic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Indic Conjunct Break | Extend |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Diacritic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Extend | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Extend |
| Word Break | Extend |
| Sentence Break | Extend |