U+A67E "꙾" Cyrillic Kavyka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꙾
U+A67E "꙾" Cyrillic Kavyka is a punctuation mark used primarily in older Church Slavonic and early Cyrillic manuscripts, where it functions as a type of quotation mark or ditto sign rather than a letter. Its name, "kavyka," derives from a Slavic term for a hook or quotation mark, and it typically appears as a small, hooked symbol placed above or alongside text to indicate the repetition of a preceding word or phrase, similar to the modern "Ibid." in footnotes. This character is a valuable relic of historical scribal practices, offering insight into how medieval Slavic scribes streamlined copying and avoided redundant writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A67E |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Kavyka |
| Block | Cyrillic Extended-B |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꙾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꙾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x99 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA67E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A67E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua67e |
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 |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |