What ⹇ means
It tells a service guide which hymn forms are included.
It marks a Troparion and Kontakion—two hymn forms—but no Oikos, another hymn form.
Syrnikov's 1910 guide for Yedinoverie, an Orthodox community keeping older rites, records it. His system draws on marks attributed to St. Gennadius of Novgorod around 1500; the wider Typicon symbol tradition (Orthodox service-book notation) is attributed to Nicon of the Black Mountain in the 11th century.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why 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.
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How to type or find ⹇
- Search it as
- kavyka · Church Slavonic kavyka · Typicon symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⹇CSS
\2E47How to type low kavyka
In a Unicode character picker, search “low kavyka”; choose the standalone mark, not a combining mark placed over a letter.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⹇
HTML hex
⹇
CSS content
content: "\2E47";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%B9%87
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.