Cyrillic script in Unicode

As of Unicode version 17.0, Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks:

• Cyrillic: , 256 characters
• Cyrillic Supplement: , 48 characters
• Cyrillic Extended-A: , 32 characters
• Cyrillic Extended-B: , 96 characters
• Cyrillic Extended-C: , 11 characters
• Cyrillic Extended-D: , 63 characters
• Phonetic Extensions: , 2 Cyrillic characters
• Combining Half Marks: , 2 Cyrillic characters

The characters in the range U+0400–U+045F are basically the characters from ISO 8859-5 moved upward by 864 positions. The next characters in the Cyrillic block, range U+0460–U+0489, are historical letters, some of which are still used for Church Slavonic. The characters in the range U+048A–U+04FF and the complete Cyrillic Supplement block (U+0500–U+052F) are additional letters for various languages that are written with Cyrillic script. Two characters are in the Phonetic Extensions block: U+1D2Bᴫ CYRILLIC LETTER SMALL CAPITAL EL from the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet and U+1D78ᵸ MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC EN for transcribing nasal vowels.

Unicode includes few precomposed accented Cyrillic letters; the others can be combined by adding U+0301́ COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT after the accented vowel (e.g., е́ у́ э́); see below.

Several diacritical marks not specific to Cyrillic can be used with Cyrillic text, including:

• in Combining Diacritical Marks block . U+0301◌́ COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT (as common Cyrillic stress mark). U+0300◌̀ COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT (as stress mark in Bulgarian). U+0303◌̃ COMBINING TILDE (in non Slavic languages) U+0304◌̄ COMBINING MACRON (in non Slavic languages) U+0306◌̆ COMBINING BREVE (with й but also other letters in non Slavic languages) U+0307◌̇ COMBINING DOT ABOVE (in transliterations of other writing systems) U+0308◌̈ COMBINING DIAERESIS (in non Slavic languages) U+030A◌̊ COMBINING RING ABOVE (in non Slavic languages) U+030B◌̋ COMBINING DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT (in non Slavic languages) U+030C◌̌ COMBINING CARON (in non Slavic languages) U+030F◌̏ COMBINING DOUBLE GRAVE ACCENT (with ѷ in old spelling) U+0311◌̑ COMBINING INVERTED BREVE (in 19th century Aleut alphabet) U+0323◌̣ COMBINING DOT BELOW (in transliterations of other writing systems) U+0328◌̨ COMBINING OGONEK (in 19th century Polish cyrillic alphabet, in 19th century Lithuanian cyrillic alphabet) U+0331◌̱ COMBINING MACRON BELOW (in transliterations of other writing systems) U+033E◌̾ COMBINING VERTICAL TILDE (in 19th century Polish cyrillic alphabet)
• in Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols block U+20DD◌⃝ COMBINING ENCLOSING CIRCLE (as Cyrillic ten thousands sign).

In the table below, small letters are ordered according to their Unicode numbers; capital letters are placed immediately before the corresponding small letters. Standard Unicode names and canonical decompositions are included.

Table of characters

Blocks

The Cyrillic block (U+0400 – U+04FF) was added to the Unicode Standard in October, 1991 with the release of version 1.0:

The Cyrillic Supplement block (U+0500 – U+052F) was added to the Unicode Standard in March, 2002 with the release of version 3.2:

The Cyrillic Extended-A (U+2DE0 – U+2DFF) and Cyrillic Extended-B (U+A640 – U+A69F) blocks were added to the Unicode Standard in April, 2008 with the release of version 5.1:

The Cyrillic Extended-C block (U+1C80 – U+1C8F) was added to the Unicode Standard in June, 2016 with the release of version 9.0:

The Cyrillic Extended-D block (U+1E030 – U+1E08F) was added to the Unicode Standard in September, 2022 with the release of version 15.0:

See also

• List of Cyrillic letters
• Cyrillic script
• Cyrillic alphabets

• Gordana Jovanović, ed. (2009). [Standardization of the Old Church Slavonic Cyrillic Script and its Registration in Unicode] (PDF). Vol. CXXV (Scientific Meetings ed.). Belgrade: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. ISBN 978-86-7025-494-7. Archived from (PDF) on 2012-03-18.