U+A69C "ꚜ" Modifier Letter Cyrillic Hard Sign Unicode Character

U+A69C "ꚜ" Modifier Letter Cyrillic Hard Sign is a specialized typographic mark within the Cyrillic script, belonging to the Cyrillic Extended-B block. It functions as a modifier letter version of the standard Cyrillic hard sign (ъ), primarily used in historical or scholarly contexts to denote a slight phonetic modification such as a soft transition or breathiness rather than the full hard sign effect. This character supports precise linguistic transcription for certain Slavonic or early Cyrillic texts where a hard sign appears with a reduced or altered pronunciation. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital representations of these nuanced orthographic traditions remain accurate and accessible.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A69C
Version Added	7.0
Name	Modifier Letter Cyrillic Hard Sign
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"ъ" U+044A Cyrillic Small Letter Hard Sign

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ꚜ
HTML Hex Encoding	ꚜ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9A 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA69C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A69C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua69c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Other Lowercase	Yes
Case Ignorable	Yes
Cased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ъ" U+044A Cyrillic Small Letter Hard Sign
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ъ" U+044A Cyrillic Small Letter Hard Sign
Script	Cyrillic
Script Extensions	Cyrillic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Diacritic	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower