U+0487 "҇" Combining Cyrillic Pokrytie Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+0487 "҇" Combining Cyrillic Pokrytie is a historical combining diacritical mark used in early Cyrillic manuscripts to indicate an abbreviation or a title, functioning as a superscript ligature or as a decorative cover over certain letters. It is part of the Cyrillic Extended-A block and is typically placed above a base character to signal that the text has been shortened or to denote a sacred or important word, such as in religious texts. This character is now obsolete in modern Cyrillic orthography but remains of interest to paleographers and scholars studying Old Church Slavonic and early Slavic written traditions.
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General Properties
Code Point
U+0487
Name
Combining Cyrillic Pokrytie
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
҇
HTML Hex Encoding
҇
UTF-8 Encoding
0xD2 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0487
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000487
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0487
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Cyrillic Glagolitic