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𞁒

cyrillic subscript small letter be

Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Be

𞁒 is a subscript Cyrillic б used in phonological writing for an archiphoneme: a sound group whose members merge in context. It signals linguistic notation, not ordinary spelling.

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What 𞁒 means

It marks a sound group when context hides the differences.

In one Bulgarian dialect study, it sits beneath Cyrillic п (the p sound) for a group including p and b, whose distinction can disappear in context.

Serbian dialectologists used Cyrillic superscripts and subscripts for stronger or weaker vowel values by 1905. A 2007 Bulgarian study of speech sounds uses this subscript letter for a sound group.

Specialist: a linguistic mark whose reading depends on the transcription convention.

Read its subscript position as notation, not as a free-standing Cyrillic б.

Don't confuse it with

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𞁒 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.

How to type 𞁒

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1E052, then Alt+X to get 𞁒.
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 subscript small letter be”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1e052, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𞁒
CSS
\1E052
Linux GTK
As of 2026, press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 1E052, then Enter in a GTK text field.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𞁒
HTML hex
𞁒
CSS content
content: "\1E052";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9E%81%92
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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