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inverted low kavyka

Inverted Low Kavyka

⹅ is a kavyka mark for a saint’s Alleluia service in a Church Slavonic Typicon, a guide to the order of church services. It belongs to specialist liturgical writing. Its low position on the line distinguishes it from the raised kavyka.

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kavyka · kavyka mark · Church Slavonic punctuation · Typicon symbol · Alleluia service mark · liturgical punctuation · Yedinoverie Typicon
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What ⹅ means

It marks a saint’s Alleluia service. A 1910 service guide by Nikita Syrnikov for Yedinoverie (Orthodox communities that kept older rites) assigns it that role.

The wider Typicon system of liturgical marks is attributed to Nicon of the Black Mountain in the 11th century. Syrnikov’s set is traced to marks linked to St. Gennadius of Novgorod around 1500; these dates describe the broader tradition, not the first appearance of ⹅.

Historical and highly specialized; expect it in Church Slavonic liturgical material.

Do not treat ⹅ as an ordinary quotation mark.

Don't confuse it with

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꙾
Cyrillic Kavyka
꙾ is raised above the line; ⹅ sits inline.
◠
Upper Half Circle
◠ is a half-circle shape; ⹅ is a punctuation mark.

Questions people ask

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Why does ⹅ 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 ⹅

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2E45, 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 “inverted low kavyka”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2e45, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⹅
CSS
\2E45
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⹅
HTML hex
⹅
CSS content
content: "\2E45";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%B9%85
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On screen
1
Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

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

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