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Iota (Cyrillic)

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Iota
Ꙇ ꙇ
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic
Sound values/i/, /j/
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and  , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Cyrillic Iota (Majuscule: , Minuscule: ) 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, .[1] The character was introduced into Unicode 5.1 in April 2008, under the character block Cyrillic Extended-B.[2]

Computing codes

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Character information
Preview
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IOTA CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IOTA
Encodingsdecimalhexdechex
Unicode42566U+A64642567U+A647
UTF-8234 153 134EA 99 86234 153 135EA 99 87
Numeric character referenceꙆꙆꙇꙇ

References

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  1. 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
  2. "Cyrillic Extended-B" (PDF).