Iota (Cyrillic)

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Iota
Cyrillic letter iota.png
Usage
Writing system Cyrillic
Type Alphabetic
Sound values/ i /, / j /
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Cyrillic Iota (Majuscule: Ꙇ, Minuscule: ꙇ) is a Cyrillic letter based on the Greek letter Iota, and has been used in scholarly literature since the 10th century in the very first ie. original Cyrillic to transcribe Glagolitic izhe in its word-initial form, Ⰺ . [1] The character was introduced into Unicode 5.1 in April 2008, under the character block Cyrillic Extended-B. [2]

Computing codes

Character information
PreviewꙆꙇ
Unicode nameCYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IOTACYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IOTA
Encodingsdecimalhexdechex
Unicode 42566U+A64642567U+A647
UTF-8 234 153 134EA 99 86234 153 135EA 99 87
Numeric character reference ꙆꙆꙇꙇ

References

  1. ↑ Everson, Michael; Birnbaum, David; Cleminson, Ralph; Derzhanski, Ivan; Dorosh, Vladislav; Kryukov, Alexej; Paliga, Sorin; Ruppel, Klaas (2007-03-21), Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS (PDF), ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N3194R L2/07-003R
  2. ↑ "Cyrillic Extended-B" (PDF).


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