What ꙇ means
Enter UA647 with your editor’s Unicode input.
On systems that accept hexadecimal Unicode entry, type A647; the shortcut varies by editor or operating system. If ꙇ appears as a box, the active font lacks its glyph. Choose a font with Cyrillic Extended-B coverage.
What does ꙇ represent?
It represents Glagolitic initial izhe in scholarly transliteration.
Transliteration writes a text from one script using another. Here, ꙇ preserves a distinction from the Glagolitic source when scholars write that text in Cyrillic; it is not a regular spelling choice in modern Cyrillic.
Glagolitic was used for Slavonic scripture and liturgical books before Cyrillic became its principal successor. Scholarly use of ꙇ is recorded from the nineteenth century; a 1911 example appears in Vatroslav Jagić’s edition of the Codex Marianus, a medieval Gospel manuscript.
Is ꙇ the Church Slavonic dotless i?
No. It represents Glagolitic initial izhe, not the dotless i.
Do not substitute ꙇ for the Church Slavonic dotless i. Its historical counterpart is Glagolitic ⰺ; its shape follows Greek iota ι. The capital form of this Cyrillic character is Ꙇ.
A specialist scholarly character used in Glagolitic transliteration and historical Cyrillic work.
Do not use ꙇ as the Church Slavonic dotless i.
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꙇ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ꙇ
- Also called
- Cyrillic iota · iota (Cyrillic)
- Search it as
- Glagolitic initial izhe · transliteration · Church Slavonic dotless i · Jagić
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ꙇ\A647Codes and encoding1 code points
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