| Iota | |
|---|---|
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | /i/, /j/ |
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
| Preview | Ꙇ | ꙇ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IOTA | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IOTA | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 42566 | U+A646 | 42567 | U+A647 |
| UTF-8 | 234 153 134 | EA 99 86 | 234 153 135 | EA 99 87 |
| Numeric character reference | Ꙇ |
Ꙇ |
ꙇ |
ꙇ |
References
- ^ 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
- ^ "Cyrillic Extended-B" (PDF).