U+2DF5 "ⷵ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Es-Te Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2DF5 "ⷵ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Es-Te is a diacritical mark used in the extended Cyrillic alphabet, specifically designed as a combining character that modifies a base letter by adding the ligature shape of the Cyrillic letters "с" (es) and "т" (te). This character is employed in certain scholarly or liturgical contexts, such as in the transcription of Old Church Slavonic or other historical Slavic manuscripts, where it aids in representing specific phonetic combinations or abbreviations. As a combining character, it is intended to be placed over or attached to a preceding base Cyrillic letter to alter its pronunciation or meaning, and it belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-B block of the Unicode standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DF5 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Cyrillic Letter Es-Te |
| 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 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DF5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DF5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2df5 |