U+A67A "ꙺ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Soft Sign Unicode Character

U+A67A "ꙺ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Soft Sign is a diacritical mark used in historical Cyrillic script, specifically within the extended Cyrillic block, designed to modify a base character by indicating a palatalized or softened pronunciation of the preceding consonant without functioning as an independent letter. This combining character, which appears as a small superscript form of the soft sign (ь), was employed in early Slavic manuscripts and certain modern scholarly transcriptions to faithfully represent phonetic distinctions in Old Church Slavonic or other medieval texts. Its application allows for precise encoding of linguistic nuances in digital environments, preserving the orthographic accuracy of ancient writings or specialized academic works where standard Cyrillic soft signs might not suffice.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A67A
Version Added	6.1
Name	Combining Cyrillic Letter Soft Sign
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 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA67A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A67A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua67a

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