What ꙾ means
It points to an alternative reading, not a sound.
Paired kavyki bracket a passage linked to a gloss or margin note; they change no grammar. A 17th-century citation records the older name кавычька (“hook mark”); the Octoechos, a liturgical book, used kavyka footnotes in print by 1888.
Historical and liturgical; use it when transcribing a source.
Read the pair as passage brackets, not as a letter or accent.
Don't confuse it with
4Combination ideas
1The word is marked for an alternative reading or gloss.
Questions people ask
1Why does ꙾ show as a box?
A font without historical Cyrillic coverage may show a missing-glyph box; that indicates missing font support.
How to type ꙾
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType A67E, then Alt+X to get ꙾.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cyrillic kavyka”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType a67e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
꙾CSS
\A67EHow to type ꙾
A Church Slavonic keyboard such as SlavKey may include it; ordinary Cyrillic layouts may not.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
꙾
HTML hex
꙾
CSS content
content: "\A67E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%99%BE
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.