U+0486 Combining Cyrillic Psili Pneumata
U+0486 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Nonspacing Mark and inherits its
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Nonspacing Mark. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+0486 prohibits a line break before it. The glyph can be confused with 2 other glyphs.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The smooth breathing (Ancient Greek: ψιλὸν πνεῦμα, romanized: psilòn pneûma; Greek: ψιλή psilí; Latin: spiritus lenis) 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. Sidney 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 | ◌҆ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 D8 32 |
| Adobe Glyph List | psilipneumatacyrilliccmb |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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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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| ✘︎ | |
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| Extend | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Extend | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
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| Yes | |
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| Yes | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
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| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
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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 |