Cyrillic Characters In Unicode
The Cyrillic script is encoded in four blocks in Unicode, all in BMP:
- Cyrillic: U+0400–U+04FF, 256 characters
- Cyrillic Supplement: U+0500–U+052F, 48 characters
- Cyrillic Extended-A: U+2DE0–U+2DFF, 32 characters
- Cyrillic Extended-B: U+A640–U+A69F, 96 characters
- Phonetic Extensions: U+1D2B, U+1D78, 2 Cyrillic characters
The characters in the range U+0400–U+045F are basically the characters from ISO 8859-5 moved upward by 864 positions. The next characters in the Cyrillic block, range U+0460–U+0489, are historical letters, some being still used for Church Slavonic. The characters in the range U+048A–U+04FF and the complete Cyrillic Supplement block (U+0500-U+052F) are additional letters for various languages that are written with Cyrillic script. Two characters are added in the block Phonetic Extensions: U+1D2B ᴫ cyrillic letter small capital el and U+1D78 ᵸ modifier letter cyrillic en, which are introduced to complete the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet.
Unicode includes few precomposed accented Cyrillic letters; the others can be combined by adding U+0301 ("combining acute accent") after the accented vowel (e.g., ы́ э́ ю́ я́).
This table does include changes in Unicode 5.1, 5.2 and 6.0. Revisions to the existing Cyrillic blocks and the addition of Cyrillic Extended A (2DE0...2DFF) and Cyrillic Extended B (A640...A69F), with support for the early Cyrillic alphabet, Abkhaz, Mordvin, Kurdish, Aleut, Chuvash, Tati and Juhuri
In the table below, small letters are ordered according to their Unicode numbers; capital letters are placed immediately before the corresponding small letters. Standard Unicode names and canonical decompositions are included.
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