Cyrillic (Unicode block) (original) (raw)

Unicode character block

Cyrillic
Range U+0400..U+04FF(256 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Cyrillic (254 characters) Inherited (2 characters)
Major alphabets RussianUkrainianBelarusianBulgarianSerbianMacedonianAbkhaz
Assigned 256 code points
Unused 0 reserved code points
Source standards ISO 8859-5
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991) 192 (+192)
1.0.1 (1992) 188 (-4)
1.1 (1993) 226 (+38)
3.0 (1999) 238 (+12)
3.2 (2002) 246 (+8)
4.1 (2005) 248 (+2)
5.0 (2006) 255 (+7)
5.1 (2008) 256 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chartWeb page
Note: Four characters (two upper and lower case letter pairs) were removed from the Cyrillic block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646.[1][2][3]

Cyrillic is a Unicode block containing the characters used to write the most widely used languages with a Cyrillic orthography. The core of the block is based on the ISO 8859-5 standard, with additions for minority languages and historic orthographies.

Cyrillic[1]Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+040x Ѐ Ё Ђ Ѓ Є Ѕ І Ї Ј Љ Њ Ћ Ќ Ѝ Ў Џ
U+041x А Б В Г Д Е Ж З И Й К Л М Н О П
U+042x Р С Т У Ф Х Ц Ч Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э Ю Я
U+043x а б в г д е ж з и й к л м н о п
U+044x р с т у ф х ц ч ш щ ъ ы ь э ю я
U+045x ѐ ё ђ ѓ є ѕ і ї ј љ њ ћ ќ ѝ ў џ
U+046x Ѡ ѡ Ѣ ѣ Ѥ ѥ Ѧ ѧ Ѩ ѩ Ѫ ѫ Ѭ ѭ Ѯ ѯ
U+047x Ѱ ѱ Ѳ ѳ Ѵ ѵ Ѷ ѷ Ѹ ѹ Ѻ ѻ Ѽ ѽ Ѿ ѿ
U+048x Ҁ ҁ ҂ ◌҃ ◌҄ ◌҅ ◌҆ ◌҇ ◌҈ ◌҉ Ҋ ҋ Ҍ ҍ Ҏ ҏ
U+049x Ґ ґ Ғ ғ Ҕ ҕ Җ җ Ҙ ҙ Қ қ Ҝ ҝ Ҟ ҟ
U+04Ax Ҡ ҡ Ң ң Ҥ ҥ Ҧ ҧ Ҩ ҩ Ҫ ҫ Ҭ ҭ Ү ү
U+04Bx Ұ ұ Ҳ ҳ Ҵ ҵ Ҷ ҷ Ҹ ҹ Һ һ Ҽ ҽ Ҿ ҿ
U+04Cx Ӏ Ӂ ӂ Ӄ ӄ Ӆ ӆ Ӈ ӈ Ӊ ӊ Ӌ ӌ Ӎ ӎ ӏ
U+04Dx Ӑ ӑ Ӓ ӓ Ӕ ӕ Ӗ ӗ Ә ә Ӛ ӛ Ӝ ӝ Ӟ ӟ
U+04Ex Ӡ ӡ Ӣ ӣ Ӥ ӥ Ӧ ӧ Ө ө Ӫ ӫ Ӭ ӭ Ӯ ӯ
U+04Fx Ӱ ӱ Ӳ ӳ Ӵ ӵ Ӷ ӷ Ӹ ӹ Ӻ ӻ Ӽ ӽ Ӿ ӿ
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Cyrillic block:

Version Final code points[a] Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document
1.0.0 U+0401..040C, 040E..044F, 0451..045C, 045E..0486, 0490..04C4, 04C7..04C8, 04CB..04CC 188 (to be determined)
L2/00-164 Hudson, John (2000-05-01), Rendering Serbian italic forms with OpenType
L2/00-176 Everson, Michael (2000-06-01), Some Türkmen alphabets
L2/00-219 Everson, Michael (2000-07-09), The case of the Cyrillic letter PALOCHKA
L2/05-287 Kryukov, Alexey (2005-10-02), U+047C/U+047D CYRILLIC OMEGA WITH TITLO
L2/05-279 Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "CYRILLIC OMEGA WITH TITLO", UTC #105 Minutes
L2/06-011 Cleminson, Ralph (2006-01-10), Cyrillic Omega with Titlo
L2/06-033 McGowan, Rick (2006-01-30), PRI #83: Changing Glyph for U+047C/U+047D Cyrillic Omega with Titlo
L2/06-192 N3118 Anderson, Deborah (2006-05-08), Request to Change Glyphs for U+0485 and U+0486
L2/06-108 Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), "Consensus 107-C39", UTC #107 Minutes, Change the glyphs for U+0485 COMBINING CYRILLIC DASIA PNEUMATA and U+0486 COMBINING CYRILLIC PSILI PNEUMATA
L2/06-292 Anderson, Deborah (2006-08-07), Re: Public Review Issue #83: Glyph change for Cyrillic Omega with Titlo
L2/06-231 Moore, Lisa (2006-08-17), "B.11.2", UTC #108 Minutes
N3153 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-02-16), "M49.1f", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29, Correct the glyphs for 0485 COMBINING CYRILLIC DASIA PNEUMATA and 0486 COMBINING CYRILLIC PSILI PNEUMATA based on document N3118.
L2/06-329 Cleminson, Ralph (2006-10-11), Histoire d'O (omega with titlo)
L2/06-357 N3184 Everson, Michael; Birnbaum, David; Cleminson, Ralph; Derzhanski, Ivan; Dorosh, Vladislav; Kryukov, Alexey; Paliga, Sorin (2006-10-30), On CYRILLIC LETTER OMEGA WITH TITLO and on CYRILLIC LETTER UK
L2/06-389 Birnbaum, David (2006-11-13), Diacritics for Early Cyrillic
L2/06-324R2 Moore, Lisa (2006-11-29), "C.11.2", UTC #109 Minutes
L2/07-268 N3253 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.8 (Cyrillic glyph corrections)", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
L2/08-144 N3435R Everson, Michael; Priest, Lorna (2008-04-11), Proposal to encode two Cyrillic characters for Abkhaz
L2/08-318 N3453 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.1", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52, Change the glyphs for 04A8, 04A9, 04BE and 04BF (Abkhasian letters) to those shown in document N3435 to reflect modern Abkhaz orthography preference.
L2/08-161R2 Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Action item 115-A76", UTC #115 Minutes, Create a glyph erratum for the 4 changed Abkhaz glyphs...
L2/15-014 Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2015-01-26), Proposal to Change Annotations on Some Cyrillic Characters
L2/15-182 Whistler, Ken (2015-07-20), Suggested Responses to Suggestions re Cyrillic in L2/15-014
L2/15-187 Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "Action item 144-A29", UTC #144 Minutes, Add the Script_Extension value of "Glagolitic" to U+0484 for Unicode 9.0.
1.1 U+04D0..04EB, 04EE..04F5, 04F8..04F9 38 (to be determined)
3.0 U+0400, 040D, 0450, 045D 4 N418 Yugoslav Position for SC2/ DP 10646
N1323 Kardalev, Ratislav; Jerman-Blazic, Borka; Everson, Michael (1996-01-16), Proposal and Summary for addition of Cyrillic characters
N1407 Kardalev, Ratislav (1996-05-15), Reconsideration of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N 1323 document
N1353 Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-06-25), "8.3.1", Draft minutes of WG2 Copenhagen Meeting # 30
N1453 Ksar, Mike; Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1996-12-06), "8.4", WG 2 Minutes - Quebec Meeting 31
UTC/1996-xxx Greenfield, Steve (1996-12-13), "Motion #70-7", Action Items & Resolutions Generated at UTC #70
L2/98-004R N1681 Text of ISO 10646 – AMD 18 for PDAM registration and FPDAM ballot, 1997-12-22
L2/98-318 N1894 Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 18, AMENDMENT 18: Symbols and Others, 1998-10-22
U+0488..0489 2 L2/98-211 N1744 Everson, Michael (1998-05-25), Additional Cyrillic characters for the UCS
L2/98-301 N1847 Everson, Michael (1998-09-12), Responses to NCITS/L2 and Unicode Consortium comments on numerous proposals
L2/98-372 N1884R2 (pdf, doc) Whistler, Ken; et al. (1998-09-22), Additional Characters for the UCS
L2/98-329 N1920 Combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot on WD for ISO/IEC 10646-1/Amd. 30, AMENDMENT 30: Additional Latin and other characters, 1998-10-28
L2/99-010 N1903 (pdf, html, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), "8.1.5.1", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
L2/01-050 N2253 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.15 Komi Cyrillic", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000
U+048C..048D 2 L2/99-077.1 N1975 Irish Comments on SC 2 N 3210, 1999-01-20
L2/99-232 N2003 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1999-08-03), "6.1.4", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 36, Fukuoka, Japan, 1999-03-09--15
U+048E..048F, 04EC..04ED 4 L2/97-146 N1590 Trosterud, Trond (1997-06-09), Proposal to add 10 Cyrillic Sámi characters to ISO/IEC 10646
L2/97-288 N1603 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "8.24.7", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997
L2/98-211 N1744 Everson, Michael (1998-05-25), Additional Cyrillic characters for the UCS
L2/98-281R (pdf, html) Aliprand, Joan (1998-07-31), "Cyrillic characters (IV.C.4)", Unconfirmed Minutes – UTC #77 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 174 JOINT MEETING, Redmond, WA -- July 29-31, 1998
L2/98-292R (pdf, html, Figure 1) "2.3", Comments on proposals to add characters from ISO standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 4, 1998-08-19
L2/98-292 N1840 "2.3", Comments on proposals to add characters from ISO standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 4, 1998-08-25
L2/98-301 N1847 Everson, Michael (1998-09-12), Responses to NCITS/L2 and Unicode Consortium comments on numerous proposals
L2/98-372 N1884R2 (pdf, doc) Whistler, Ken; et al. (1998-09-22), Additional Characters for the UCS
L2/98-329 N1920 Combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot on WD for ISO/IEC 10646-1/Amd. 30, AMENDMENT 30: Additional Latin and other characters, 1998-10-28
L2/99-010 N1903 (pdf, html, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), "8.1.5.1", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
L2/01-050 N2253 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.15 Komi Cyrillic", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000
3.2 U+048A..048B, 04C5..04C6, 04C9..04CA, 04CD..04CE 8 L2/98-258 N1813 Trosterud, Trond (1997-06-09), Proposal to add 10 Cyrillic Sámi characters to ISO/IEC 10646
L2/98-276 N1813 p6 Kuruch, Rimma; et al. (1998-07-20), Norwegian comments on Cyrillic Sámi
L2/98-329 N1920 Combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot on WD for ISO/IEC 10646-1/Amd. 30, AMENDMENT 30: Additional Latin and other characters, 1998-10-28
L2/99-010 N1903 (pdf, html, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), "8.2.4", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
L2/99-255 N2069 Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3309, ISO 10646-1/FPDAM 30 - Additional Latin and other characters, 1999-08-19
L2/00-082 N2173 Everson, Michael; et al. (2000-03-03), Proposal to add 8 Cyrillic Sámi characters to ISO/IEC 10646
L2/00-234 N2203 (rtf, txt) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.4", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24
L2/00-115R2 Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), "Motion 83-M2", Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83
4.1 U+04F6..04F7 2 L2/02-452 N2560 Brase, Jim; Constable, Peter (2002-12-06), Proposal for Encoding Additional Cyrillic Characters for Siberian Yupik
5.0 U+04CF 1 L2/05-076 Davis, Mark (2005-02-10), Stability of Case Folding
N2942 Freytag, Asmus; Whistler, Ken (2005-08-12), Proposal to add nine lowercase characters
L2/05-108R Moore, Lisa (2005-08-26), "Stability of Case Folding (B.14.2)", UTC #103 Minutes
N2953 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "M47.5f", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15
U+04FA..04FF 6 L2/05-080R2 N2933 Priest, Lorna (2005-08-02), Proposal to Encode Additional Cyrillic Characters (rev 2005/08/18)
L2/05-215 Anderson, Deborah (2005-08-03), Feedback on Cyrillic letters EL WITH HOOK and HA WITH HOOK (L2/05-080)
L2/05-230 Priest, Lorna (2005-08-11), Nameslist annotations for new Cyrillic letters
L2/05-180 Moore, Lisa (2005-08-17), "Cyrillic (C.18)", UTC #104 Minutes
N2953 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "7.2.4", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15
5.1 U+0487 1 L2/06-042 Cleminson, Ralph (2006-01-26), Proposal for additional Cyrillic characters
L2/06-181 Anderson, Deborah (2006-05-08), Responses to the UTC regarding L2/06-042, Proposal for Additional Cyrillic Characters
L2/06-359 Cleminson, Ralph (2006-10-31), Proposal for additional Cyrillic characters
L2/07-003 N3194 Everson, Michael; Birnbaum, David; Cleminson, Ralph; Derzhanski, Ivan; Dorosh, Vladislav; Kryukov, Alexey; Paliga, Sorin; Ruppel, Klaas (2007-01-12), Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS
L2/07-055 Cleminson, Ralph (2007-01-19), Comments on Additional Cyrillic Characters (L2/07-003 = WG2 N3194)
L2/07-015 Moore, Lisa (2007-02-08), "Cyrillic (C.13)", UTC #110 Minutes
L2/07-268 N3253 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.11", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
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