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Neutral Yer

Neutral Yer is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Neutral Yer
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic

Neutral Yer ( ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

In transcriptions of Church Slavonic, it is used to indicate Ь or Ъ when it is not possible to tell the difference in a historic manuscript.1

It has the appearance of a yer, but with a hook at the top of the stem. In some fonts it appears identical to Ъ.

Computing codes

Character information
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Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER NEUTRAL YER CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER NEUTRAL YER
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 42574 U+A64E 42575 U+A64F
UTF-8 234 153 142 EA 99 8E 234 153 143 EA 99 8F
Numeric character reference Ꙏ Ꙏ ꙏ ꙏ
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