U+2DF9 "ⷹ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Monograph Uk Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2DF9 "ⷹ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Monograph Uk is a diacritical mark used in historical and linguistic writing systems to modify a base Cyrillic character, specifically representing a unified or monographic form of the Cyrillic letter "Uk" (a digraph typically written as ОУ or Ѹ). It belongs to the Cyrillic Extended A block and functions as a combining character, meaning it is placed above or attached to a preceding letter to indicate a single sound unit rather than two separate letters. This character is primarily utilized in scholarly texts, old church Slavonic manuscripts, or phonetic transcriptions where precise orthographic representation of historical Cyrillic usage is needed, though it is rare in modern standard fonts and applications.

General Properties

Code Point U+2DF9
Version Added 5.1
Name Combining Cyrillic Letter Monograph Uk
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 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2DF9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002DF9
C/C++/Java Escape \u2df9

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Cyrillic
Script Extensions Cyrillic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend