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Cyrillic script in Unicode

As of Unicode version , Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks:

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 of which are 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 in the Phonetic Extensions block: from the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet and for transcribing nasal vowels.

Unicode includes few precomposed accented Cyrillic letters; the others can be combined by adding after the accented vowel (e.g., е́ у́ э́); see below.

Several diacritical marks not specific to Cyrillic can be used with Cyrillic text, including:

  • in Combining Diacritical Marks block U+0300–U+036F.
  • (as common Cyrillic stress mark).
  • (as stress mark in Bulgarian).
  • (in non Slavic languages)
  • (in non Slavic languages)
  • (with й but also other letters in non Slavic languages)
  • (in transliterations of other writing systems)
  • (in non Slavic languages)
  • (in non Slavic languages)
  • (in non Slavic languages)
  • (in non Slavic languages)
  • (with Ñ· in old spelling)
  • (in 19th century Aleut alphabet)
  • (in transliterations of other writing systems)
  • (in 19th century Polish cyrillic alphabet, in 19th century Lithuanian cyrillic alphabet)
  • (in transliterations of other writing systems)
  • (in 19th century Polish cyrillic alphabet)
  • in Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols block U+20D0–U+20F0
  • (as Cyrillic ten thousands sign).

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.

Table of characters

Blocks

The Cyrillic block (U+0400 – U+04FF) was added to the Unicode Standard in October, 1991 with the release of version 1.0:

The Cyrillic Supplement block (U+0500 – U+052F) was added to the Unicode Standard in March, 2002 with the release of version 3.2:

The Cyrillic Extended-A (U+2DE0 – U+2DFF) and Cyrillic Extended-B (U+A640 – U+A69F) blocks were added to the Unicode Standard in April, 2008 with the release of version 5.1:

The Cyrillic Extended-C block (U+1C80 – U+1C8F) was added to the Unicode Standard in June, 2016 with the release of version 9.0:

The Cyrillic Extended-D block (U+1E030 – U+1E08F) was added to the Unicode Standard in September, 2022 with the release of version 15.0:

See also

References