U+048C "Ҍ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Semisoft Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ҍ
U+048C "Ҍ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Semisoft Sign is a historic Cyrillic letter used primarily in the Old Church Slavonic and early Slavic writing systems to denote a semisoft or slightly palatalized consonant sound, intermediate between a hard and a fully soft pronunciation. It was part of the broader Cyrillic alphabet employed in medieval manuscripts, where it functioned as a diacritic-like modifier to adjust the phonetic quality of preceding consonants. As a capital letter, it corresponds to the lowercase "ҍ" and belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-B block of Unicode, though it is rarely used in modern languages, with its phonetic role largely subsumed by other letters or softness indicators in contemporary Cyrillic orthographies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+048C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Semisoft Sign |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ҍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ҍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x048C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000048C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u048c |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ҍ" U+048D Cyrillic Small Letter Semisoft Sign |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ҍ" U+048D Cyrillic Small Letter Semisoft Sign |
| Simple Case Folding | "ҍ" U+048D Cyrillic Small Letter Semisoft Sign |
| Case Folding | "ҍ" U+048D Cyrillic Small Letter Semisoft Sign |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ҍ" U+048D Cyrillic Small Letter Semisoft Sign |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ҍ" U+048D Cyrillic Small Letter Semisoft Sign |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |