What 𜽀 means
It adds a descending pitch to its base sign.
A neume cues sung notes. Kryzh may touch its base or sit beside it.
How did this mark develop?
It grew from Byzantine chant writing.
A standalone Kryzh sign closed chants in late 10th- and early 11th-century Byzantine-derived notation. East Slavic Znamenny chant grew from Byzantine models by the 11th century; early signs cued familiar melodies, not exact pitches. Later Put and Demestvenny notation used this Kryzh for descent. Demestvenny took shape by the mid-16th century; red pitch marks entered Znamenny writing in the first half of the 17th century.
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Don't confuse it with
1Questions 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.
How to type or find 𜽀
- Search it as
- kryzh · kryzhik · znamenny kryzh · put notation · demestvenny notation
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜽀\1CF40Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.