Cyrillic (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Cyrillic
RangeU+0400..U+04FF
(256 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCyrillic (254 characters)
Inherited (2 characters)
Major alphabetsRussian
Ukrainian
Belarusian
Bulgarian
Serbian
Macedonian
Abkhaz
Assigned256 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Source standardsISO 8859-5
Unicode version history
1.0.0192 (+192)
1.0.1188 (-4)
1.1226 (+38)
3.0238 (+12)
3.2246 (+8)
4.1248 (+2)
5.0255 (+7)
5.1256 (+1)
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]

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

History

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

References

  1. "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum". The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.0.0/Notice.pdf. Retrieved 2016-07-09. 
  2. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26. 
  3. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.