What ᲀ means
It preserves an older shape for the letter в.
Rounded Ve appears in early Church Slavonic printed books and in poluustav, a semi-uncial style of print. Rounded Ve in early printed books is documented from 1550–1700; preserving the source's letterforms helped reproduce Church Slavonic texts accurately, rather than adding a new sound.
It has the same reading as в. In early printed books, its use could be irregular or connected to certain diacritics, so its placement can reflect a printing tradition rather than pronunciation. As of 2026, specialist fonts reproduce the form for Church Slavonic, Old Rite, and academic typesetting.
A specialist Church Slavonic form that signals source-preserving, liturgical, or academic typography.
Read it as в, not as a new sound.
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Who writes ᲀ
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does rounded Ve look wrong?
It may be a font issue. ᲀ needs a typeface with Church Slavonic historical characters; without one, your software may show a fallback glyph.
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How to type or find ᲀ
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- rounded Ve · Church Slavonic letter · Church Slavonic typography · poluustav · Old Rite typography · Fedorovsk · Ponomar
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ᲀ\1C80Codes and encoding1 code points
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