U+2DE3 "ⷣ" Combining Cyrillic Letter De Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⷣ
U+2DE3 "ⷣ" Combining Cyrillic Letter De is a diacritical mark used in certain Slavonic and Cyrillic orthographies to modify the pronunciation of a base letter, typically representing a softened or palatalized "d" sound. It belongs to the Cyrillic Extended A block and is designed to combine visually with a preceding Cyrillic character, altering its phonetic value in contexts such as Church Slavonic liturgical texts or linguistic transcriptions. Its shape derives from the Cyrillic letter De (Д) but is rendered as a small superscript form that attaches to the upper portion of the base letter, ensuring it functions as a clear, non spacing modifier rather than an independent character.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DE3 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Cyrillic Letter De |
| Block | Cyrillic Extended-A |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⷣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⷣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB7 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DE3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DE3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2de3 |