U+2DE8 "ⷨ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Em Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⷨ
U+2DE8 "ⷨ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Em is a combining diacritical mark used in the Cyrillic script, specifically representing a combining form of the Cyrillic letter Em. It is part of the Cyrillic Extended A block and is designed to be placed above or attached to a base character to modify its pronunciation or denote a specific phonetic value, often in scholarly transliterations or linguistic notation. This character helps to accurately represent certain sounds in historical or minority languages, such as Old Church Slavonic or various Uralic languages, where the combination of letters requires precise typographic encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DE8 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Cyrillic Letter Em |
| 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 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DE8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DE8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2de8 |