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Pokrytie

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Pokrytie
U+0487 ◌҇ COMBINING CYRILLIC POKRYTIE
An example of multiple usage of letter-titlos in a Russian manuscript, c. 1400
An example of multiple usage of letter-titlos in a Russian manuscript, c. 1400

Pokrytie (  ҇  ) is one of the historic diacritical signs of Cyrillic that was used in Old Church Slavonic, later medieval Cyrillic literary traditions and modern Church Slavonic.

It is a modification of titlo adapted for covering (hence its name, Old Slavonic for 'covering') combining Cyrillic letters (so called letter-titlos). It is conventionally not used with combining modifications of letters Д, Ж, З and Х, although exceptions happen, especially in skoropis.

The character was introduced into Unicode 5.1 in April 2008.

See also

  • Everson, Michael; Birnbaum, David; Cleminson, Ralph; Derzhanski, Ivan; Dorosh, Vladislav; Kryukov, Alexej; Paliga, Sorin; Ruppel, Klaas (2007-03-21), Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS (PDF), ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N3194R L2/07-003R