U+A675 "ꙵ" Combining Cyrillic Letter I Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A675 "ꙵ" Combining Cyrillic Letter I is a historical diacritical mark used in early Cyrillic manuscripts and later in Church Slavonic liturgical texts, where it was placed above or combined with a preceding base letter to indicate a distinct phonetic value or a specific spelling variant. This character, part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block, was primarily employed in the orthography of medieval Slavic writings to represent a narrow or prolonged "i" sound, particularly in contexts where a simple Cyrillic letter I would not suffice for precise pronunciation or grammatical differentiation. Its inclusion in Unicode helps scholars and typographers accurately digitize rare and archaic manuscripts, preserving the nuanced textual traditions of the Old Church Slavonic language.

General Properties

Code Point U+A675
Version Added 6.1
Name Combining Cyrillic Letter I
Block Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Above
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꙵ
HTML Hex Encoding ꙵ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x99 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA675
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A675
C/C++/Java Escape \ua675

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