U+A66E "ꙮ" Cyrillic Letter Multiocular O Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A66E "ꙮ" Cyrillic Letter Multiocular O is a highly unusual and rare glyph found in certain medieval Cyrillic manuscripts, most famously within the 15th century work "The Book of Psalms" where it was used to represent the concept of "many-eyed" in the phrase "many-eyed seraphim." This character consists of a central circle surrounded by multiple smaller circles or "eyes," traditionally shown with seven or more ocular figures arranged in a circular pattern, symbolizing divine watchfulness or the many eyes of celestial beings. It is a part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block and was officially included in Unicode version 5.1 in 2008, serving as a specialized historical character that highlights the diversity and artistic creativity of scribal traditions in Old Church Slavonic and early East Slavic writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+A66E
Version Added 5.1
Name Cyrillic Letter Multiocular O
Block Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꙮ
HTML Hex Encoding ꙮ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x99 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA66E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A66E
C/C++/Java Escape \ua66e

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
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 OLetter