U+2DF6 "ⷶ" Combining Cyrillic Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⷶ
U+2DF6 "ⷶ" Combining Cyrillic Letter A is a combining diacritical mark used in the extended Cyrillic script, typically positioned above a base Cyrillic character to modify its pronunciation, most often in historical or liturgical texts such as Church Slavonic. Unlike a standalone letter, this character attaches to a preceding character to indicate a specific phonetic shift, often representing a reduced or semivowel sound derived from the Cyrillic letter A. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the accurate digital representation of early Cyrillic manuscripts and scholarly transcriptions where such orthographic details are preserved.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DF6 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Cyrillic Letter A |
| 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 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DF6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DF6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2df6 |