U+2DF2 "ⷲ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Sha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⷲ
U+2DF2 "ⷲ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Sha is a diacritical mark used in historical Cyrillic alphabets, particularly in early Slavonic manuscripts, where it was placed above a base letter to modify its pronunciation, specifically representing a variant of the "sha" (Ш) sound. As a combining character, it is not used independently but attaches to a preceding character, typically to indicate a palatalized or softened articulation in certain orthographic traditions. This glyph is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block and is primarily of interest to scholars of historical linguistics, paleography, and digital text encoding, as it helps accurately preserve and reproduce ancient written forms in modern electronic documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DF2 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Cyrillic Letter Sha |
| 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 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DF2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DF2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2df2 |