U+1C86 "ᲆ" Cyrillic Small Letter Tall Hard Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᲆ
U+1C86 "ᲆ" Cyrillic Small Letter Tall Hard Sign is a typographic variant of the standard Cyrillic hard sign (ъ) used primarily in historical or specialized text, rather than in modern everyday Cyrillic writing. Its "tall" form features an extended vertical stroke, designed to align visually with other tall lowercase letters in certain fonts and orthographic styles. This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended C block, and its inclusion in Unicode allows for more faithful representation of older printed or handwritten documents, particularly in Church Slavonic or early Russian texts where such distinctions in letter height were applied for aesthetic or readability purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1C86 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Tall Hard Sign |
| Block | Cyrillic Extended-C |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᲆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᲆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB2 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1C86 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001C86 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1c86 |