Millions mark

It multiplies a Cyrillic numeral by a million.

The letter before it supplies a number under the old Cyrillic alphabetic numeral system, which assigned values to letters. In а҉, the Cyrillic а has the value one, so the construction means one million.

The system was adapted from Greek Ionian numerals, which also used letters as numbers, and probably developed in Bulgaria in the tenth century before spreading to East Slavic writing. Ordinary Cyrillic numerals use a titlo, a small mark over a numeral letter; ҂ marks thousands, while other combining signs extend the scale.

what is the leodr sign?

Leodr is the name for this million-level mark in a historical system.

The name leodr is dated to the late fourteenth to early fifteenth century.

Its value depends on the notation. In the small-number system, leodr means a million; seventeenth-century “great-number” schemes could use it for a legion of legions, a much larger unit.

how do i type ҉?

Enter the Cyrillic numeral letter first, then ҉.

҉ combines with the preceding base instead of taking its own width, so a bare mark may appear missing or misplaced. For a standalone specimen, put a nonbreaking space before it; that space keeps the pair from splitting across lines.

A Church Slavonic keyboard layout may offer the mark through a superscription feature for adding raised marks, or a dead key pressed before another character; exact keys vary. Some Church Slavonic OpenType fonts—fonts with layout rules for historical scripts—may select alternate forms or tighter spacing, changing the sign's shape and line fit.