U+A67D "꙽" Combining Cyrillic Payerok Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꙽
U+A67D "꙽" Combining Cyrillic Payerok is a historical diacritic mark used in early Cyrillic script, particularly in Old Church Slavonic and Old East Slavic manuscripts, where it appears as a small, hook like sign placed above a consonant to indicate that the preceding vowel had been omitted or to denote a reduced vowel sound, such as in the abbreviation of words or in archaic chanting notations. This combining character is designed to modify the base letter without occupying its own spacing, and it belongs to the Cyrillic Extended B block, serving primarily as a scholarly and liturgical symbol for accurate text transcription, though it is rarely used in modern standard Cyrillic alphabets.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A67D |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Cyrillic Payerok |
| 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 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA67D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A67D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua67d |