U+0486 Combining Cyrillic Psili Pneumata
U+0486 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Nonspacing Mark and inherits its script property from the preceding character. It is also used in the scripts Cyrillic, Latin.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Nonspacing Mark and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 2 other glyphs. In text U+0486 behaves as Combining Mark regarding line breaks. It has type Extend for sentence and Extend for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Extend.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The smooth breathing (Ancient Greek: ψιλὸν πνεῦμα, romanized: psilòn pneûma; Greek: ψιλή psilí; Latin: spīritus lēnis) is a diacritical mark used in polytonic orthography. In Ancient Greek, it marks the absence of the voiceless glottal fricative /h/ from the beginning of a word.
Some authorities have interpreted it as representing a glottal stop, but a final vowel at the end of a word is regularly elided (removed) when the following word starts with a vowel and elision would not happen if the second word began with a glottal stop (or any other form of stop consonant). In his Vox Graeca, W.S. Allen accordingly regards the glottal stop interpretation as "highly improbable".
The smooth breathing mark ( ᾿ ) is written as on top of one initial vowel, on top of the second vowel of a diphthong or to the left of a capital and also, in certain editions, on the first of a pair of rhos. It did not occur on an initial upsilon, which always has rough breathing (thus the early name ὕ hy, rather than ὔ y) except in certain pre-Koine dialects which had lost aspiration much earlier.
The smooth breathing was kept in the traditional polytonic orthography even after the /h/ sound had disappeared from the language in Hellenistic times. It has been dropped in the modern monotonic orthography.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 1158 |
UTF-8 | D2 86 |
UTF-16 | 04 86 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 04 86 |
URL-Quoted | %D2%86 |
HTML hex reference | ҆ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ◌҆ |
Adobe Glyph List | psilipneumatacyrilliccmb |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
COMBINING CYRILLIC PSILI PNEUMATA | |
CYRILLIC NON-SPACING PSILI PNEUMATA | |
Cyrillic | |
Nonspacing Mark | |
Inherited | |
Nonspacing Mark | |
Above | |
None | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Extend | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
Extend | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Extend | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Extend | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
Neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Transparent | |
Combining Mark | |
None | |
not a number | |
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Cyrillic Latin | |
R |