CYRILLIC (UNICODE BLOCK)

Cyrillic
Cyrillic
Range	U+0400..U+04FF; (256 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Cyrillic (254 characters) ; Inherited (2 characters)
Major alphabets	Russian; Ukrainian; Belarusian; Bulgarian; Serbian; Macedonian; Abkhaz
Assigned	256 code points
Unused	0 reserved code points
Source standards	ISO 8859-5
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)	192 (+192)
1.0.1 (1992)	188 (-4)
1.1 (1993)	226 (+38)
3.0 (1999)	238 (+12)
3.2 (2002)	246 (+8)
4.1 (2005)	248 (+2)
5.0 (2006)	255 (+7)
5.1 (2008)	256 (+1)
Unicode documentation
	Code chart ∣ Web page
	Note: Four characters (two upper and lower case letter pairs) were removed from the Cyrillic block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646.

Cyrillic is a Unicode block containing the characters used to write the most widely used languages with a Cyrillic orthography. The core of the block is based on the ISO 8859-5 standard, with additions for minority languages and historic orthographies.

Block

Cyrillic^[1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
U+040x	Ѐ	Ё	Ђ	Ѓ	Є	Ѕ	І	Ї	Ј	Љ	Њ	Ћ	Ќ	Ѝ	Ў	Џ
U+041x	А	Б	В	Г	Д	Е	Ж	З	И	Й	К	Л	М	Н	О	П
U+042x	Р	С	Т	У	Ф	Х	Ц	Ч	Ш	Щ	Ъ	Ы	Ь	Э	Ю	Я
U+043x	а	б	в	г	д	е	ж	з	и	й	к	л	м	н	о	п
U+044x	р	с	т	у	ф	х	ц	ч	ш	щ	ъ	ы	ь	э	ю	я
U+045x	ѐ	ё	ђ	ѓ	є	ѕ	і	ї	ј	љ	њ	ћ	ќ	ѝ	ў	џ
U+046x	Ѡ	ѡ	Ѣ	ѣ	Ѥ	ѥ	Ѧ	ѧ	Ѩ	ѩ	Ѫ	ѫ	Ѭ	ѭ	Ѯ	ѯ
U+047x	Ѱ	ѱ	Ѳ	ѳ	Ѵ	ѵ	Ѷ	ѷ	Ѹ	ѹ	Ѻ	ѻ	Ѽ	ѽ	Ѿ	ѿ
U+048x	Ҁ	ҁ	҂	◌҃	◌҄	◌҅	◌҆	◌҇	◌҈	◌҉	Ҋ	ҋ	Ҍ	ҍ	Ҏ	ҏ
U+049x	Ґ	ґ	Ғ	ғ	Ҕ	ҕ	Җ	җ	Ҙ	ҙ	Қ	қ	Ҝ	ҝ	Ҟ	ҟ
U+04Ax	Ҡ	ҡ	Ң	ң	Ҥ	ҥ	Ҧ	ҧ	Ҩ	ҩ	Ҫ	ҫ	Ҭ	ҭ	Ү	ү
U+04Bx	Ұ	ұ	Ҳ	ҳ	Ҵ	ҵ	Ҷ	ҷ	Ҹ	ҹ	Һ	һ	Ҽ	ҽ	Ҿ	ҿ
U+04Cx	Ӏ	Ӂ	ӂ	Ӄ	ӄ	Ӆ	ӆ	Ӈ	ӈ	Ӊ	ӊ	Ӌ	ӌ	Ӎ	ӎ	ӏ
U+04Dx	Ӑ	ӑ	Ӓ	ӓ	Ӕ	ӕ	Ӗ	ӗ	Ә	ә	Ӛ	ӛ	Ӝ	ӝ	Ӟ	ӟ
U+04Ex	Ӡ	ӡ	Ӣ	ӣ	Ӥ	ӥ	Ӧ	ӧ	Ө	ө	Ӫ	ӫ	Ӭ	ӭ	Ӯ	ӯ
U+04Fx	Ӱ	ӱ	Ӳ	ӳ	Ӵ	ӵ	Ӷ	ӷ	Ӹ	ӹ	Ӻ	ӻ	Ӽ	ӽ	Ӿ	ӿ
Notes 1. ^ As of Unicode version 15.1

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Cyrillic block:

Version	Final code points^[a]	Count	UTC ID	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
1.0.0	U+0401..040C, 040E..044F, 0451..045C, 045E..0486, 0490..04C4, 04C7..04C8, 04CB..04CC	188				(to be determined)
				L2/00-164		Hudson, John (2000-05-01), Rendering Serbian italic forms with OpenType
				L2/00-176		Everson, Michael (2000-06-01), Some Türkmen alphabets
				L2/00-219		Everson, Michael (2000-07-09), The case of the Cyrillic letter PALOCHKA
				L2/05-287		Kryukov, Alexey (2005-10-02), U+047C/U+047D CYRILLIC OMEGA WITH TITLO
				L2/05-279		Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "CYRILLIC OMEGA WITH TITLO", UTC #105 Minutes
				L2/06-011		Cleminson, Ralph (2006-01-10), Cyrillic Omega with Titlo
				L2/06-033		McGowan, Rick (2006-01-30), PRI #83: Changing Glyph for U+047C/U+047D Cyrillic Omega with Titlo
				L2/06-192	N3118	Anderson, Deborah (2006-05-08), Request to Change Glyphs for U+0485 and U+0486
				L2/06-108		Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), "Consensus 107-C39", UTC #107 Minutes, Change the glyphs for U+0485 COMBINING CYRILLIC DASIA PNEUMATA and U+0486 COMBINING CYRILLIC PSILI PNEUMATA
				L2/06-292		Anderson, Deborah (2006-08-07), Re: Public Review Issue #83: Glyph change for Cyrillic Omega with Titlo
				L2/06-231		Moore, Lisa (2006-08-17), "B.11.2", UTC #108 Minutes
					N3153 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-02-16), "M49.1f", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29, Correct the glyphs for 0485 COMBINING CYRILLIC DASIA PNEUMATA and 0486 COMBINING CYRILLIC PSILI PNEUMATA based on document N3118.
				L2/06-329		Cleminson, Ralph (2006-10-11), Histoire d'O (omega with titlo)
				L2/06-357	N3184	Everson, Michael; Birnbaum, David; Cleminson, Ralph; Derzhanski, Ivan; Dorosh, Vladislav; Kryukov, Alexey; Paliga, Sorin (2006-10-30), On CYRILLIC LETTER OMEGA WITH TITLO and on CYRILLIC LETTER UK
				L2/06-389		Birnbaum, David (2006-11-13), Diacritics for Early Cyrillic
				L2/06-324R2		Moore, Lisa (2006-11-29), "C.11.2", UTC #109 Minutes
				L2/07-268	N3253 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.8 (Cyrillic glyph corrections)", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
				L2/08-144	N3435R	Everson, Michael; Priest, Lorna (2008-04-11), Proposal to encode two Cyrillic characters for Abkhaz
				L2/08-318	N3453 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.1", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52, Change the glyphs for 04A8, 04A9, 04BE and 04BF (Abkhasian letters) to those shown in document N3435 to reflect modern Abkhaz orthography preference.
				L2/08-161R2		Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Action item 115-A76", UTC #115 Minutes, Create a glyph erratum for the 4 changed Abkhaz glyphs...
				L2/15-014		Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2015-01-26), Proposal to Change Annotations on Some Cyrillic Characters
				L2/15-182		Whistler, Ken (2015-07-20), Suggested Responses to Suggestions re Cyrillic in L2/15-014
				L2/15-187		Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "Action item 144-A29", UTC #144 Minutes, Add the Script_Extension value of "Glagolitic" to U+0484 for Unicode 9.0.
1.1	U+04D0..04EB, 04EE..04F5, 04F8..04F9	38				(to be determined)
3.0	U+0400, 040D, 0450, 045D	4			N418	Yugoslav Position for SC2/ DP 10646
					N1323	Kardalev, Ratislav; Jerman-Blazic, Borka; Everson, Michael (1996-01-16), Proposal and Summary for addition of Cyrillic characters
					N1407	Kardalev, Ratislav (1996-05-15), Reconsideration of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N 1323 document
					N1353	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-06-25), "8.3.1", Draft minutes of WG2 Copenhagen Meeting # 30
					N1453	Ksar, Mike; Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1996-12-06), "8.4", WG 2 Minutes - Quebec Meeting 31
			UTC/1996-xxx			Greenfield, Steve (1996-12-13), "Motion #70-7", Action Items & Resolutions Generated at UTC #70
				L2/98-004R	N1681	Text of ISO 10646 – AMD 18 for PDAM registration and FPDAM ballot, 1997-12-22
				L2/98-318	N1894	Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 18, AMENDMENT 18: Symbols and Others, 1998-10-22
	U+0488..0489	2		L2/98-211	N1744	Everson, Michael (1998-05-25), Additional Cyrillic characters for the UCS
				L2/98-301	N1847	Everson, Michael (1998-09-12), Responses to NCITS/L2 and Unicode Consortium comments on numerous proposals
				L2/98-372	N1884R2 (pdf, doc)	Whistler, Ken; et al. (1998-09-22), Additional Characters for the UCS
				L2/98-329	N1920	Combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot on WD for ISO/IEC 10646-1/Amd. 30, AMENDMENT 30: Additional Latin and other characters, 1998-10-28
				L2/99-010	N1903 (pdf, html, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), "8.1.5.1", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
				L2/01-050	N2253	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.15 Komi Cyrillic", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000
	U+048C..048D	2		L2/99-077.1	N1975	Irish Comments on SC 2 N 3210, 1999-01-20
	U+048C..048D	2		L2/99-232	N2003	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1999-08-03), "6.1.4", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 36, Fukuoka, Japan, 1999-03-09--15
	U+048E..048F, 04EC..04ED	4		L2/97-146	N1590	Trosterud, Trond (1997-06-09), Proposal to add 10 Cyrillic Sámi characters to ISO/IEC 10646
				L2/97-288	N1603	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "8.24.7", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997
				L2/98-211	N1744	Everson, Michael (1998-05-25), Additional Cyrillic characters for the UCS
				L2/98-281R (pdf, html)		Aliprand, Joan (1998-07-31), "Cyrillic characters (IV.C.4)", Unconfirmed Minutes – UTC #77 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 174 JOINT MEETING, Redmond, WA -- July 29-31, 1998
				L2/98-292R (pdf, html, Figure 1)		"2.3", Comments on proposals to add characters from ISO standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 4, 1998-08-19
				L2/98-292	N1840	"2.3", Comments on proposals to add characters from ISO standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 4, 1998-08-25
				L2/98-301	N1847	Everson, Michael (1998-09-12), Responses to NCITS/L2 and Unicode Consortium comments on numerous proposals
				L2/98-372	N1884R2 (pdf, doc)	Whistler, Ken; et al. (1998-09-22), Additional Characters for the UCS
				L2/98-329	N1920	Combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot on WD for ISO/IEC 10646-1/Amd. 30, AMENDMENT 30: Additional Latin and other characters, 1998-10-28
				L2/99-010	N1903 (pdf, html, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), "8.1.5.1", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
				L2/01-050	N2253	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.15 Komi Cyrillic", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000
3.2	U+048A..048B, 04C5..04C6, 04C9..04CA, 04CD..04CE	8		L2/98-258	N1813	Trosterud, Trond (1997-06-09), Proposal to add 10 Cyrillic Sámi characters to ISO/IEC 10646
				L2/98-276	N1813 p6	Kuruch, Rimma; et al. (1998-07-20), Norwegian comments on Cyrillic Sámi
				L2/98-329	N1920	Combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot on WD for ISO/IEC 10646-1/Amd. 30, AMENDMENT 30: Additional Latin and other characters, 1998-10-28
				L2/99-010	N1903 (pdf, html, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), "8.2.4", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
				L2/99-255	N2069	Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3309, ISO 10646-1/FPDAM 30 - Additional Latin and other characters, 1999-08-19
				L2/00-082	N2173	Everson, Michael; et al. (2000-03-03), Proposal to add 8 Cyrillic Sámi characters to ISO/IEC 10646
				L2/00-234	N2203 (rtf, txt)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.4", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24
				L2/00-115R2		Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), "Motion 83-M2", Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83
4.1	U+04F6..04F7	2		L2/02-452	N2560	Brase, Jim; Constable, Peter (2002-12-06), Proposal for Encoding Additional Cyrillic Characters for Siberian Yupik
5.0	U+04CF	1		L2/05-076		Davis, Mark (2005-02-10), Stability of Case Folding
					N2942	Freytag, Asmus; Whistler, Ken (2005-08-12), Proposal to add nine lowercase characters
				L2/05-108R		Moore, Lisa (2005-08-26), "Stability of Case Folding (B.14.2)", UTC #103 Minutes
					N2953 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "M47.5f", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15
	U+04FA..04FF	6		L2/05-080R2	N2933	Priest, Lorna (2005-08-02), Proposal to Encode Additional Cyrillic Characters (rev 2005/08/18)
				L2/05-215		Anderson, Deborah (2005-08-03), Feedback on Cyrillic letters EL WITH HOOK and HA WITH HOOK (L2/05-080)
				L2/05-230		Priest, Lorna (2005-08-11), Nameslist annotations for new Cyrillic letters
				L2/05-180		Moore, Lisa (2005-08-17), "Cyrillic (C.18)", UTC #104 Minutes
					N2953 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "7.2.4", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15
5.1	U+0487	1		L2/06-042		Cleminson, Ralph (2006-01-26), Proposal for additional Cyrillic characters
				L2/06-181		Anderson, Deborah (2006-05-08), Responses to the UTC regarding L2/06-042, Proposal for Additional Cyrillic Characters
				L2/06-359		Cleminson, Ralph (2006-10-31), Proposal for additional Cyrillic characters
				L2/07-003	N3194	Everson, Michael; Birnbaum, David; Cleminson, Ralph; Derzhanski, Ivan; Dorosh, Vladislav; Kryukov, Alexey; Paliga, Sorin; Ruppel, Klaas (2007-01-12), Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS
				L2/07-055		Cleminson, Ralph (2007-01-19), Comments on Additional Cyrillic Characters (L2/07-003 = WG2 N3194)
				L2/07-015		Moore, Lisa (2007-02-08), "Cyrillic (C.13)", UTC #110 Minutes
				L2/07-268	N3253 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.11", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

^ "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.

[final-4] Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

[1] "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.

[2] "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.

[3] "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.

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Cyrillic
Range	U+0400..U+04FF (256 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Cyrillic (254 characters) Inherited (2 characters)
Major alphabets	Russian Ukrainian Belarusian Bulgarian Serbian Macedonian Abkhaz
Assigned	256 code points
Unused	0 reserved code points
Source standards	ISO 8859-5
Unicode version history

1.0.0 (1991)	192 (+192)
1.0.1 (1992)	188 (-4)
1.1 (1993)	226 (+38)
3.0 (1999)	238 (+12)
3.2 (2002)	246 (+8)
4.1 (2005)	248 (+2)
5.0 (2006)	255 (+7)
5.1 (2008)	256 (+1)

Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: Four characters (two upper and lower case letter pairs) were removed from the Cyrillic block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646.^[1]^[2]^[3]