What ҇ means
It covers a raised letter-titlo in Church Slavonic text. A letter-titlo is a small letter written above the line to stand for letters omitted from a word.
Cyrillic appears in Old Church Slavonic manuscripts from the 10th century. In this written tradition, raised letters made abbreviations, including for sacred names.
Older and modern texts use the marks differently
In Old Church Slavonic, pokrytie, titlo ҃, and vzmet ꙯ could overlap in use. Modern Church Slavonic distinguishes them: pokrytie caps raised letter-titlos, titlo marks omitted letters or numerals, and vzmet is no longer used. The mark is also attested in historical Glagolitic writing, another old Slavic script.
How do I type pokrytie?
Enter the letter-titlo first, then add the cover. A dedicated Church Slavonic keyboard can enter the sequence; in Unicode source text, append \u0487 after the relevant combining letter-titlo.
Pokrytie is a separate combining mark, not a precomposed letter. Without font support for positioning it over the raised letter, it may float or disappear.
Specialist manuscript and liturgical typography used in Church Slavonic.
Alone, it cannot tell you which word the abbreviation stands for; read the surrounding letters.
Don't confuse it with
3Questions people ask
1Why does pokrytie disappear?
Font support is usually the issue. Without a suitable Church Slavonic font, the mark may lack a stable position or appear missing; it needs the full letter-titlo sequence.
How to type ҇
҇\0487Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.