What ꙿ means
Payerok, also spelled paerok, marks an omitted yer. A yer was an old Cyrillic letter for a reduced vowel, left out after a consonant.
Old Russian manuscripts use it frequently in the 11th–12th centuries; it largely disappears from that writing tradition in the 13th–14th centuries.
A historical orthographic mark in Cyrillic and Church Slavonic manuscripts.
Don't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
1Does ꙿ match one fixed manuscript shape?
No. Historical forms include dots, apostrophe-like strokes, angles and zigzags; ꙿ is one encoded form.
How to type ꙿ
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType A67F, then Alt+X to get ꙿ.
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 payerok”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType a67f, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ꙿCSS
\A67FCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ꙿ
HTML hex
ꙿ
CSS content
content: "\A67F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%99%BF
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.