U+0485 "҅" Combining Cyrillic Dasia Pneumata Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

҅
Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+0485 "҅" Combining Cyrillic Dasia Pneumata is a diacritical mark used primarily in the historical orthography of Old Church Slavonic and certain early Cyrillic texts, where it appears as a superscript symbol resembling a small hook or accent placed above a letter. Derived from the Greek spiritus asper or rough breathing mark, it denotes an initial aspiration or a specifically articulated sound in liturgical and manuscript contexts, though it is largely obsolete in modern Cyrillic writing. This combining character is encoded for compatibility with digital representations of ancient Slavic documents, allowing scholars to accurately preserve and display the nuanced phonetic and textual features of early Cyrillic script.

General Properties

Code Point
U+0485
Name
Combining Cyrillic Dasia Pneumata
Unicode 1.0 Name
Cyrillic Non-Spacing Dasia Pneumata

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
҅
HTML Hex Encoding
҅
UTF-8 Encoding
0xD2 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0485
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000485
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0485