U+2DF8 "ⷸ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Djerv Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⷸ
U+2DF8 "ⷸ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Djerv is a combining diacritical mark used in the extended Cyrillic script, designed to be placed above or below a base character to modify its sound. This glyph represents a historical or phonetic element from early Cyrillic typography, specifically derived from the letter "Djerv" (Ћ), which was used in Old Church Slavonic or related orthographies to denote a palatalized or distinct consonant sound. As a combining character, it attaches to preceding letters to alter pronunciation in scholarly transliterations or specialized linguistic texts, though it is rarely encountered in modern standard Cyrillic alphabets and is primarily of interest to historians of writing systems or Unicode enthusiasts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DF8 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Cyrillic Letter Djerv |
| 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 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DF8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DF8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2df8 |