U+A69D "ꚝ" Modifier Letter Cyrillic Soft Sign Unicode Character

U+A69D "ꚝ" Modifier Letter Cyrillic Soft Sign is a specialized typographic mark used primarily in the historic and linguistic representation of certain Old Cyrillic and early Slavic texts. Unlike the standard Cyrillic soft sign (ь), this modifier letter variant functions as a distinct diacritical or phonetic indicator, often denoting a palatalization or a softened pronunciation in reconstructed or scholarly contexts. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard helps ensure accurate digital encoding for historical manuscripts, linguistic studies, and languages that require precise phonetic transcription without relying on combining marks or standard characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A69D
Version Added	7.0
Name	Modifier Letter Cyrillic Soft Sign
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"ь" U+044C Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ꚝ
HTML Hex Encoding	ꚝ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9A 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA69D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A69D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua69d

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	"ь" U+044C Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ь" U+044C Cyrillic Small Letter Soft 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