Combining Glagolitic Letter Dobro

To use 𞀄 in Glagolitic text, put it after the letter it belongs above. It is the combining form of Dobro used in manuscript abbreviations, not the full-size letter written on the line.

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What 𞀄 means

It belongs above a Glagolitic base letter.

This is a titlo letter: a raised letter written above another as part of an abbreviation. Constantine, later known as Cyril, is credited with devising Glagolitic around 862 for scripture and liturgy in Old Church Slavonic, an early written Slavic language. The earliest surviving Glagolitic manuscripts are generally dated to the late 10th or early 11th century.

From the 12th century onward, Cyrillic increasingly displaced Glagolitic. In Croatia, Glagolitic also served public and literary life, and church use lasted into modern times. Cyrillic took most of its letter shapes from Greek and borrowed some forms for Slavic sounds from Glagolitic.

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Glagolitic Alphabet

Who writes 𞀄

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Questions people ask

Why does 𞀄 look blank on its own?

Because it is a combining mark. It attaches to a preceding letter; Unicode charts show a dotted-circle guide to make that position visible, but the circle is not part of 𞀄.