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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Cyrillic
Script Extensions Cyrillic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend