U+A69F "ꚟ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Iotified E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꚟ
U+A69F "ꚟ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Iotified E is a historical diacritical mark used in certain early Cyrillic alphabets to represent the sound of a iotated (or "yod"-preceded) vowel corresponding to the letter "Е", essentially indicating that the vowel is pronounced with a preceding "y" sound as in "ye". This combining character is designed to attach to a base Cyrillic letter to modify its pronunciation, and it is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block in Unicode which preserves rare or obsolete characters from Old Church Slavonic and other early Slavic manuscripts. Its inclusion helps scholars accurately encode and digitally represent ancient texts where such phonetic distinctions were critical for correct reading and interpretation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A69F |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Combining Cyrillic Letter Iotified E |
| Block | Cyrillic Extended-B |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꚟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꚟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9A 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA69F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A69F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua69f |