U+2DF2 "ⷲ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Sha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

ⷲ
Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+2DF2 "ⷲ" Combining Cyrillic Letter Sha is a diacritical mark used in historical Cyrillic alphabets, particularly in early Slavonic manuscripts, where it was placed above a base letter to modify its pronunciation, specifically representing a variant of the "sha" (Ш) sound. As a combining character, it is not used independently but attaches to a preceding character, typically to indicate a palatalized or softened articulation in certain orthographic traditions. This glyph is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block and is primarily of interest to scholars of historical linguistics, paleography, and digital text encoding, as it helps accurately preserve and reproduce ancient written forms in modern electronic documents.

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Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ⷲ
HTML Hex Encoding
ⷲ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0xB7 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2DF2
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002DF2
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2df2