U+A662 "Ꙣ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft De Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+A662 "Ꙣ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft De is a rarely used letter found in certain historical manuscripts and early printed texts of the Church Slavonic language. It represents a palatalized or "soft" version of the standard Cyrillic letter De (Д), typically transcribed as /dʲ/ in linguistic notation. This character emerged during the development of the Cyrillic script to accommodate specific phonetic distinctions in Old East Slavic and Church Slavonic, but it eventually fell out of common use with orthographic reforms. Today, it is primarily of interest to scholars of Slavic paleography and historical linguistics, as well as digital typographers working to preserve and reproduce ancient texts.
General Properties
Code Point
U+A662
Name
Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft De
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ꙣ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ꙣ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0x99 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA662
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A662
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua662
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Cyrillic