U+A69A "Ꚛ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Crossed O Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block and is largely obsolete in modern Slavic languages, where it has been replaced by the standard Cyrillic letter O. Today, it is mainly encountered in scholarly texts, paleographic studies, or digital contexts for accurately encoding ancient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