Soft Em

Soft Em (Ꙧ ꙧ; italics: Ꙧ ꙧ ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Soft Em has seen rare use in certain Old Church Slavonic editions as a fused form of М҄, denoting a palatalized М. The font DejaVu has the glyph in Cyrillic Extended-B.

Cyrillic letter

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soft em
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Old Church Slavonic
Sound values	[mʲ]
In Unicode	U+A666, U+A667
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Soft Em (Ꙧ ꙧ; italics: Ꙧ ꙧ ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Soft Em has seen rare use in certain Old Church Slavonic editions as a fused form of М҄, denoting a palatalized М.^[1]

The font DejaVu has the glyph in Cyrillic Extended-B.

Computing codes

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Character information

Preview	Ꙧ		ꙧ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SOFT EM		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT EM
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	42598	U+A666	42599	U+A667
UTF-8	234 153 166	EA 99 A6	234 153 167	EA 99 A7
Numeric character reference	Ꙧ	Ꙧ	ꙧ	ꙧ

See also

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• Cyrillic characters in Unicode

References

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1. ^ "Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS" (PDF). 2007-03-21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-19.

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