U+A69A "Ꚛ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Crossed O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꚛ
U+A69A "Ꚛ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Crossed O is a rare and specialized letter used in the Old Church Slavonic and early Cyrillic alphabets, primarily within historical or liturgical manuscripts. Its distinctive design features a horizontal stroke through the center of the letter O, which may have been employed to represent a specific phonetic variant or to denote a numerical value in the cyrillic numeral system. This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block and is largely obsolete in modern Slavic languages, where it has been replaced by the standard Cyrillic letter O. Today, it is mainly encountered in scholarly texts, paleographic studies, or digital contexts for accurately encoding ancient written forms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A69A |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Crossed O |
| Block | Cyrillic Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꚛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꚛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9A 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA69A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A69A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua69a |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ꚛ" U+A69B Cyrillic Small Letter Crossed O |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꚛ" U+A69B Cyrillic Small Letter Crossed O |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꚛ" U+A69B Cyrillic Small Letter Crossed O |
| Case Folding | "ꚛ" U+A69B Cyrillic Small Letter Crossed O |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꚛ" U+A69B Cyrillic Small Letter Crossed O |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꚛ" U+A69B Cyrillic Small Letter Crossed O |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |