U+A667 "ꙧ" Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Em Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A667 "ꙧ" Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Em is a historical glyph used in early Church Slavonic manuscripts, representing a palatalized or soft version of the letter "M" that is no longer part of any modern Cyrillic alphabet. It belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-B block, which covers archaic letters added primarily for scholarly and liturgical text encoding. This specific character, with its distinct form featuring a tail or hook indicating softness, served a phonetic purpose in medieval Slavic writing before such distinctions were gradually lost or merged into other letters. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for accurate digital representation of ancient texts, helping linguists and historians preserve and analyze the original sounds and orthography of Early Cyrillic literature.

General Properties

Code Point U+A667
Version Added 5.1
Name Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Em
Block Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꙧ
HTML Hex Encoding ꙧ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x99 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA667
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A667
C/C++/Java Escape \ua667

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Lowercase Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point "Ꙧ" U+A666 Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft Em
Simple Titlecase Code Point "Ꙧ" U+A666 Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft Em
Uppercase Code Point "Ꙧ" U+A666 Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft Em
Titlecase Code Point "Ꙧ" U+A666 Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft Em
Cased Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Titlecased Yes
Changes When Uppercased Yes
Script Cyrillic
Script Extensions Cyrillic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break Lower