U+2DEC "ⷬ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Er Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2DEC "ⷬ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Er is a combining diacritical mark used in certain extended Cyrillic alphabets, primarily for historical or liturgical Slavonic texts. It appears as a small, superscript form of the Cyrillic letter "Er" (Р, р) that is placed above or attached to a base character to modify its pronunciation, often indicating a palatalized or reduced sound in specific orthographic traditions. This character is part of the Combining Cyrillic Letters block, designed to support accurate digital representation of complex script systems where such modifiers are essential for phonetic precision or textual fidelity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DEC |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Cyrillic Letter Er |
| 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 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DEC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DEC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2dec |