U+2DFC "ⷼ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Iotified A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⷼ
U+2DFC "ⷼ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Iotified A is a diacritical mark from the Combining Diacritical Marks Extended block, specifically designed for scholarly or liturgical transliteration of Old Church Slavonic and early Cyrillic texts. It represents a combining version of the Cyrillic letter “iotified a” (ꙗ), which historically denoted a palatalized or pre-iotated [ja] sound, and it is placed above a base Cyrillic character to modify its phonetic value, similar to a breve or hook. This character is used primarily in paleographic and linguistic works to accurately transcribe manuscript spellings where the iotified vowel appears as a superscript element.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DFC |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Cyrillic Letter Iotified 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 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DFC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DFC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2dfc |