U+A67C "꙼" Combining Cyrillic Kavyka Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A67C "꙼" Combining Cyrillic Kavyka is a diacritical mark used in historical Cyrillic manuscripts, particularly in Church Slavonic texts, where it appears as a small hook or breve-like symbol placed above a letter to indicate a specific phonetic or orthographic feature, such as a shortened vowel or a particular intonation. This combining character belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-B block and is primarily employed in scholarly editions or digital reproductions of medieval Slavic writings to accurately represent the original scribal practices. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that researchers and linguists can preserve and study the nuanced textual traditions of Old Cyrillic script without losing the precise graphic details intended by the original authors.

General Properties

Code Point U+A67C
Version Added 5.1
Name Combining Cyrillic Kavyka
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 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA67C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A67C
C/C++/Java Escape \ua67c

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
Diacritic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend