U+048D Cyrillic Small Letter Semisoft Sign
U+048D was added to Unicode in version 3.0 (1999). It belongs to the block Cyrillic in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Cyrillic script. It is related to its uppercase variant Cyrillic Capital Letter Semisoft Sign and its titlecase variant Cyrillic Capital Letter Semisoft Sign.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+048D behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Lower for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The semisoft sign (Ҍ ҍ; italics: Ҍ ҍ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
The semisoft sign is used in the alphabet of the Kildin Sami language, where it indicates palatalization (sometimes also called "half-palatalization") of the preceding stop, /nʲ/, /tʲ/, or /dʲ/.
It has a similar shape to the yat (ѣ) but the taller horizontal stroke is shorter.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 1165 |
| UTF-8 | D2 8D |
| UTF-16 | 04 8D |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 04 8D |
| URL-Quoted | %D2%8D |
| HTML-Escape | ҍ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ò |
| LATEX | \cyrchar\cyrsemisftsn |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 3.0 (1999) | |
| CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SEMISOFT SIGN | |
| — | |
| Cyrillic | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Cyrillic | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Semisoft Sign | |
| ✔ | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Semisoft Sign | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Semisoft Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Semisoft Sign | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Semisoft Sign | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Semisoft Sign | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Semisoft Sign | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Semisoft Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Semisoft Sign | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Semisoft Sign | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Semisoft Sign | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Semisoft Sign | |
| R |