U+0488 "҈" Combining Cyrillic Hundred Thousands Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
҈
U+0488 "҈" Combining Cyrillic Hundred Thousands Sign is a diacritical mark used in the historical Cyrillic numeral system, known as the Cyrillic numeric or titlo system, to indicate that the modified letter beneath it represents the number one hundred thousand. It is a combining mark, meaning it is placed on top of a base Cyrillic letter to change its numeric value, and it originates from medieval manuscripts where it was employed for writing large numbers before modern digits became standard. This character belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-B block and has no common usage in modern written languages, making it relevant primarily to historical linguistics and digital text encoding for ancient documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0488 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Combining Cyrillic Hundred Thousands Sign |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Enclosing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ҈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ҈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0488 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000488 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0488 |