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Unicode Status for Cyrillic

In The Unicode Standard, Cyrillic script implementation is discussed in Chapter 7 Europe-I: Modern and Liturgical Scripts , UTN 26: On the Encoding of Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Han, and in UTN 41: Church Slavonic Typography in Unicode.

The Cyrillic script was first encoded in The Unicode Standard version 1.0. Since that time the encoding has undergone a number of modifications; the script is now encoded in the following blocks:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Cyrillic0400..04FF1.0U0400
Cyrillic Supplement0500..052F3.2U0500
Phonetic Extensions1D2B, 1D784.0, 4.1U1D00
Cyrillic Extended-A2DE0..2DFF5.1U2DE0
Cyrillic Extended-BA640..A69F5.1UA640
Cyrillic Extended-C1C80..1C8F9.0U1C80
Cyrillic Extended-D1E030..1E08F15.0U1E030

Subsequent to version 1.0, the following characters have been added to the Cyrillic script:

CharactersUnicode VersionDocumentation
04003.0
040D3.0
04503.0
045D3.0
04875.1n3194.pdf/L2/07-003
0488..04893.0n1744.pdf, L2/98-211 (not online)
048A..048B3.2
048C..048F3.0n1744.pdf, L2/98-211(not online)
04EC..04ED3.0n1744.pdf, L2/98-211(not online)
04C5..04C63.2n2173/L2/00-082
04C9..04CA3.2n2173/L2/00-082
04CD..04CE3.2n2173/L2/00-082
04CF5.0n2942.doc
04F6..04F74.1n2560.pdf/L2/02-452
04FA..04FF5.0n2933.pdf/L2/05-080
0500..050F3.2n2224.pdf/L2/00-182
0510..05135.0n2933.pdf/L2/05-080
0514..05235.1n3194.pdf/L2/07-003
0524..05255.2n3435.pdf/L2/08-144
0526..05276.0n3481.pdf/L2/08-182
0528..052F7.0WG2 N4137, L2/11-265
1C80..1C889.0WG2 N4607, L2/14-196
2DE0..2DF55.1n3097.pdf/L2/06-172
2DF6..2DFF5.1n3194.pdf/L2/07-003
2E3A5.1n3194.pdf/L2/07-003
A640..A65F5.1n3194.pdf/L2/07-003
A660..A6616.0n3563.pdf/L2/09-020
A662..A6735.1n3194.pdf/L2/07-003
A674..A67B6.1n3748.pdf/L2/10-002
A67C..A6975.1n3194.pdf/L2/07-003
A698..A69D7.0WG2 N3974, L2/10-394, n3772.pdf/L2/09-310
A69E8.0WG2 N4390, L2/13-008
A69F6.1n3748.pdf/L2/10-002
FE2E..FE2F8.0WG2 N4475, L2/13-139

Documentation refers to ISO Working Group and Unicode proposals

A number of proposals for its inclusion were submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:

  • 1997-06-30 Repertoire proposal for 10 additional Cyrillic characters for Kildin Sami — Norway (WG2 N1590 (not online), L2/97-146 (not online)

  • 1998-05-25 Additional Cyrillic characters for the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N1744, L2/98-211 (not online))

  • 1998-06-09 Proposal to add 10 Kildin Sámi Cyrillic characters to ISO 10646 — Trosterud, Everson (L2/98-258 (not online))

  • 1998-07-06 Application for Registration No.214, Extension of the Cyrillic alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange — NB Ireland SC2 N3127 (L2/98-237 (not online))

  • 1998-07-06 Application for Registration No.223, Extended non-Slavic Cyrillic alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange — NB Ireland (L2/98-246 (not online))

  • 1998-07-20 Norwegian comments on Cyrillic Sami — Rimma Kuruch (L2/98-276 (not online))

  • 1998-09-12 Responses to NCITS/L2 and Unicode Consortium comments on numerous proposals — Michael Everson (WG2 N1847)

  • 1998-09-25 Additional Characters for the UCS — Ad Hoc on Bucket 35 (WG2 N1884)

  • 1999-04-15 Contribution on Cyrillic ordering — Konstantin V. Chuguev (L2/99-131)

  • 2000-02-15 Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode — Carl-Martin Bunz (L2/00-128)

  • 2000-03-03 Proposal to add 8 Cyrillic Sámi characters to ISO/IEC 10646 — NTS (Norway), SFS (Finland), and NSAI (Ireland) (WG2 N2173, L2/00-082)

  • 2000-04-26 Further comments on historic scripts — Carl-Martin Bunz (L2/00-153)

  • 2000-06-01 Some Türkmen alphabets — Michael Everson (L2/00-176)

  • 2000-06-09 Archaic Komi Cyrillic characters for the BMP of the UCS — Michael Everson, Klaas Ruppel. Trond Trosterud (WG2 N2224, L2/00-182)

  • 2000-07-09 The case of the Cyrillic letter PALOCHKA — Michael Everson (L2/00-219)

  • 2002-05-02 Documents for the Discussion of Bibliographic Character Sets — Cathy Wissink (L2/02-189)

  • 2002-12-06 Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters for Siberian Yupik — Jim Brase, Peter Constable (WG2 N2560, L2/02-452)

  • 2003-09-04 Proposal to add Georgian and other characters to the BMP of the UCS — NSAI/ICTSCC/SC4 (Ireland) and GSDIT (Georgia) (WG2 N2608, WG2 N2608R, WG2 N2608R2, L2/03-230)

  • 2005-08-03 Feedback on Cyrillic letters EL WITH HOOK and HA WITH HOOK (L2/05-080) — Deborah Anderson (L2/05-215)

  • 2005-08-09 Proposal to Encode Additional Cyrillic Characters — Lorna Priest (WG2 N2933, L2/05-080)

  • 2005-08-11 Nameslist annotations for new Cyrillic letters — Lorna Priest (L2/05-230)

  • 2005-08-12 Proposal to add nine lowercase characters — The Unicode Consortium (Asmus Freytag), US NB (Ken Whistler) (WG2 N2942.doc)

  • 2005-10-02 U+047C/U+047D Cyrillic Omega with Titlo — Alexej Kryukov (L2/05-287)

  • 2006-01-10 Cyrillic Omega with Titlo — Ralph Cleminson (L2/06-011)

  • 2006-01-26 Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Han — Mark Davis (L2/06-025)

  • 2006-01-26 Proposal for additional Cyrillic characters — Ralph Cleminson (L2/06-042, L2/06-359)

  • 2006-01-30 PRI #83: Changing Glyph for U+047C/U+047D Cyrillic Omega with Titlo — Rick McGowan (L2/06-033)

  • 2006-01-30 Proposal to add old Cyrillic titlo-letters to the UCS — Alexey Kryukov, Vladislav Dorosh (WG2 N3097, L2/06-040, L2/06-172)

  • 2006-05-08 Information on L2/06-040, Proposal to add old Cyrillic titlo-letters — Deborah Anderson (L2/06-183)

  • 2006-05-08 Responses to the UTC regarding L2/06-042, Proposal for Additional Cyrillic Characters — Ralph Cleminson, Deborah Anderson (L2/06-181)

  • 2006-08-04 Request to Change Glyphs for U+0485 and U+0486 — Deborah Anderson on behalf of Prof. Ralph Cleminson and Prof. David Birnbaum (WG2 N3118x, WG2 N3118, L2/06-192)

  • 2006-08-07 Re: Public Review Issue #83: Glyph change for Cyrillic Omega with Titlo — Deborah Anderson (L2/06-292)

  • 2006-10-11 Histoire d’O (omega with titlo) — Ralph Cleminson (L2/06-329)

  • 2006-10-30 On Cyrillic Letter Omega with Titlo and on Cyrillic Letter Uk — Michael Everson, David Birnbaum, Ralph Cleminson, Ivan Derzhanski, Vladislav Dorosh, Alexej Kryukov, Sorin Paliga (WG2 N3184, L2/06-357)

  • 2006-11-13 Diacritics for Early Cyrillic (1989) — David Birnbaum (L2/06-389)

  • 2007-01-12 Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS — Michael Everson, David Birnbaum, Ralph Cleminson, Ivan Derzhanski, Vladislav Dorosh, Alexej Kryukov, Sorin Paliga, Klaas Ruppel (WG2 N3194, L2/07-003)

  • 2007-01-09 Proposal to add Medievalist and Iranianist punctuation characters to the UCS — Michael Everson, Peter Baker, Marcus Dohnicht, António Emiliano, Odd Einar Haugen, Susana Pedro, David J. Perry, Roozbeh Pournader (WG2 N3193, L2/07-004)

  • 2007-01-19 Comments on Additional Cyrillic Characters (L2/07-003 = WG2 N3194) — Ralph Cleminson (L2/07-055)

  • 2007-02-23 Proposed block allocation Cyrillic / Bamum — Asmus Freytag (WG2 N3213, L2/07-105)

  • 2008-01-28 Comments on L2/08-049 (WG2 N3382) Egyptological Yod and Cyrillic Breathings — Deborah Anderson, Donald Mastronarde (L2/08-087)

  • 2008-04-08 Egyptological Yod and Cyrillic breathings — Michael Everson, Bob Richmond (WG2 N3382, L2/08-049)

  • 2008-04-08 Position Paper on Egyptological Yod and Cyrillic Breathings — INCITS L2 / UTC (WG2 N3432, L2/08-146)

  • 2008-04-14 Glyph Changes for Abkhaz — Alexander Ankwab, Akhara Bzhanija (WG2 N3429, L2/08-134)

  • 2008-04-18 Request to document glyph variants — Lorna Priest (L2/08-034)

  • 2008-04-23 Proposal to Encode Additional Latin and Cyrillic Characters — Lorna Priest (WG2 N3481, L2/08-182)

  • 2008-05-10 Proposal to encode two Cyrillic characters for Abkhaz — Michael Everson, Lorna Priest (WG2 N3435, L2/08-144)

  • 2008-07-06 Proposal for Latin Cyrillic disunification — Mattias Ellert (L2/08-251)

  • 2008-10-26 Proposal to disunify Zhuang tone letters from their Cyrillic lookalikes — Karl Pentzlin (L2/08-393)

  • 2009-03-13 Proposal to encode two Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS — Ralph Cleminson, Michael Everson (WG2 N3563, L2/09-020)

  • 2009-08-18 Proposal to Encode the Typikon Symbols in Unicode — Yuri Shardt, Aleksandr Andreev (WG2 N3772, L2/09-310)

  • 2010-01-21 Proposal to encode nine Cyrillic characters for Slavonic — Michael Everson, Victor Baranov, Heinz Miklas, Achim Rabus (WG2 N3748, L2/10-002)

  • 2010-02-05 Proposed additions to ISO/IEC 10646:2003 — INCITS/L2 (WG2 N3810, L2/10-068)

  • 2010-08-05 Proposal to add Variation Sequences for Latin and Cyrillic letters — Karl Pentzlin (L2/10-280)

  • 2010-08-08 Comments on the revised proposal to encode variation sequences for Latin and Cyrillic — Asmus Freytag (L2/10-306)

  • 2010-08-08 Feedback on Karl Pentzlin’s Draft Proposal to add Variation Sequences for Latin and Cyrillic letters — Tim Partridge ( L2/10-307)

  • 2010-09-24 Proposal to add characters used in Lithuanian dialectology to the UCS — Vladas Tumasonis, Karl Pentzlin (WG2 N3914, L2/10-357)

  • 2011-01-14 Proposal to Encode Some Outstanding Early Cyrillic Characters in Unicode — Yuri Shardt, Nikita Simmons, Aleksandr Andreev (WG2 N3974, L2/10-394)

  • 2011-02-07 Proposal to add Variation Sequences for Latin and Cyrillic letters (replaces L2/10-280) — Karl Pentzlin (L2/11-059)

  • 2011-02-28 Proposal to Encode the Mark’s Chapter Glyph in the Unicode Standard — Aleksandr Andreev, Yuri Shardt, Nikita Simmons (WG2 N3998, L2/11-031)

  • 2011-04-30 Revised proposal to add characters used in Lithuanian dialectology to the UCS — Vladas Tumasonis, Karl Pentzlin (L2/11-135)

  • 2011-05-12 Suggested Collation for Cyrillic O’s (U+A698 - U+69B) from L2/10-394R — Deborah Anderson (L2/11-127)

  • 2011-05-12 Review of Characters for Lithuanian Dialectology — Ken Whistler, Peter Constable (L2/11-189)

  • 2011-05-13 Comments on N3914 - Characters for Lithuanian Dialectology — Peter Constable, Ken Whistler (WG2 N4062, L2/11-191)

  • 2011-05-24 Second revised proposal to add characters used in Lithuanian dialectology to the UCS — Vladas Tumasonis, Karl Pentzlin (WG2 N4070, L2/11-223)

  • 2011-06-09 Report on the ad hoc re “Lithuanian dialectology” (SC2/WG2 N4070) held during the SC2/WG2 meeting at Helsinki, 2011 June 9 — Karl Pentzlin (WG2 N4116, L2/11-248)

  • 2011-07-06 Proposal to encode a missing Cyrillic letter pair for the Orok language — Ilya Yevlampiev, Karl Pentzlin (WG2 N4137, L2/11-265)

  • 2011-10-21 IDN Variant TLDs - Cyrillic Script Issues — ICANN (L2/11-369)

  • 2011-11-04 Proposed Additions to ISO/IEC 10646 — U.S. National Body (WG2 N4181, L2/11-330)

  • 2012-02-02 Proposal to encode four Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS — Michael Everson and Soslan Khubulov (WG2 N4199, L2/12-040)

  • 2012-02-09 Request for 2 New Cyrillic Characters for the Khanty and Nenets Languages — Deborah Anderson on behalf of Tapani Salminen (WG2 N4219, L2/12-052)

  • 2013-01-21 Proposal to Encode An Outstanding Early Cyrillic Character in Unicode — Aleksandr Andreev, Yuri Shardt, Nikita Simmons (WG2 N4390, L2/13-008)

  • 2013-07-08 Proposal to Encode Combining Half Marks Used for Cyrillic Supralineation in Unicode — Aleksandr Andreev, Yuri Shardt, Nikita Simmons (WG2 N4475, L2/13-139)

  • 2013-07-20 Proposal to Use Standardized Variation Sequences to Encode Church Slavonic Glyph Variants in Unicode — Aleksandr Andreev, Yuri Shardt, Nikita Simmons (L2/13-153)

  • 2013-07-25 Feedback from Experts on Cyrillic proposals — Ralph Cleminson, David Birnbaum (L2/13-164)

  • 2013-09-23 Proposal to Encode a Slavonic Punctuation Mark in Unicode — Aleksandr Andreev, Yuri Shardt, Nikita Simmons (L2/13-140)

  • 2013-11-01 Expert Feedback on L2/13-140 SLAVONIC PARAGRAPHOS — Stephen Emmel, Jost Gippert (L2/13-212)

  • 2014-02-04 Proposal to Encode a Slavonic Punctuation Mark in Unicode — Aleksandr Andreev, Yuri Shardt, Nikita Simmons (WG2 N4534, L2/13-238)

  • 2014-04-29 DUCET: Remove Most Cyrillic Contractions — Markus Scherer (L2/14-106)

  • 2014-08-01 Proposal to include Cyrillic and Latin Extended Blocks into the Roadmap — Karl Pentzlin (L2/14-190)

  • 2014-08-05 CTT: Remove Most Cyrillic Contractions — Markus Scherer (L2/14-140)

  • 2014-08-20 Proposal to Encode Additional Cyrillic Characters used in Early Church Slavonic Printed Books — Aleksandr Andreev, Yuri Shardt, Nikita Simmons (WG2 N4607, L2/14-196)

  • 2014-09-27 Letter in support of “Proposal to Encode Additional Cyrillic Characters used in Early Church Slavonic Printed Books” — Aleksandr G. Kravetsky (WG2 N4645)

  • 2015-01-12 Request for Clarification in the Encoding Model for Some Cyrillic Combining Characters — Aleksandr Andreev, Yuri Shardt, Nikita Simmons (L2/15-002)

  • 2015-01-26 Proposal to Change Annotations on Some Cyrillic Characters — Aleksandr Andreev, Yuri Shardt, Nikita Simmons (L2/15-014)

  • 2015-07-06 Addition of two letters from Montenegrin language, CYRILLIC script — Government of Montenegro, Ministry for information society and telecommunication (L2/15-169)

  • 2015-07-20 Suggested Responses to Suggestions re Cyrillic in L2/15-014 — Ken Whistler (L2/15-182)

  • 2015-07-29 Proposal to Encode some Additional Symbols used in Church Slavonic Text — Aleksandr Andreev, Yuri Shardt, Nikita Simmons (L2/15-173)

  • 2021-06-07 Unicode request for Cyrillic modifier letters — Kirk Miller (L2/21-107)

    • Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals (L2/21-130) (See point 1a.)

    • UTC #168 Minutes (L2/21-123) (See B.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2021-06-25 Addendum to L2/21-107, Cyrillic modifier letters — Kirk Miller (L2/21-142)

    • Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals (L2/21-130) (See point 1b.)

    • UTC #168 Minutes (L2/21-123) (See B.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2022-01-07 Addendum II to L2/21-107, Cyrillic modifier letters — Kirk Miller (L2/22-010)

    • Recommendations to UTC #170 January 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-023) (See point 1b.)

    • UTC #170 Minutes (L2/22-016) (See D.1 SECTION 1b for decision and action items)

  • 2022-01-09 Proposal to revise the glyph of CYRILLIC LETTER MULTIOCULAR O — Michael Everson (WG2 N5170, L2/22-002)

    • Recommendations to UTC #170 January 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-023) (See point 1a.)

    • UTC #170 Minutes (L2/22-016) (See D.1 SECTION 1a for decision and action items)

  • 2022-06-14 Response to PRI 451 — Asmus Freytag (L2/22-114)

    • UTC #172 Minutes (L2/22-121) (See F.3 for decision and action items)

  • 2022-06-16 Proposal to encode Cyrillic letter Khanty Tje — Nikita Manulov (L2/22-119)

    • Recommendations to UTC #172 July 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-128) (See point 1a.)

    • UTC #172 Minutes (L2/22-121) (See D.1 SECTION 1a for decision and action items)

  • 2022-06-25 Proposal to encode 18 Cyrillic characters for old Bashkir — Nikita Manulov (L2/22-154)

    • Recommendations to UTC #172 July 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-128) (See point 1b.)

    • UTC #172 Minutes (L2/22-121) (See D.1 SECTION 1b for decision and action items)

  • 2022-07-20 Recommendations to UTC #172 July 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-128) (See point 26.)

    • UTC #172 Minutes (L2/22-121) (See F.3 for decision and action items)

  • 2022-08-24 Proposal to encode missing Cyrillic case pair for old Udmurt — Nikita Manulov (L2/22-217)

    • Recommendations to UTC #173 November 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-248) (See point B 16b.)

  • 2022-09-18 Proposal to encode 23 Cyrillic characters for old Uslar’s Caucasian Alphabets — Nikita Manulov (L2/22-262)

    • Recommendations to UTC #173 November 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-248) (See point B 16a.)

  • 2022-09-16 Proposal to encode Cyrillic letter Che With Hook — Nikita Manulov (L2/22-280)

    • Recommendations to UTC #174 January 2023 on Script Proposals (L2/23-012) (See point B.12.)

  • 2022-12-29 Comments on CYRILLIC CHE WITH HOOK’s use in Khanty and Tofa (Tofalar) (L2/22-280) — Deborah Anderson (L2/23-015)

  • 2024-03-30 Annotation for Cyrillic Tje — Nikita Manulov (L2/24-104)

    • Recommendations to UTC #179 April 2024 on Script Proposals (L2/24-068) (See point A.II.3.)

    • UTC #179 Minutes (L2/24-061) (See D.1 Section II-3 for decision and action items)

  • 2024-04-15 Proposal to include transitional Cyrillic characters invented by I.H. Rădulescu in his proposal of the 19th Century Romanian Transitional Script and other unique characters — Marc Frincu, Marius E. Penteliuc, Simina Frincu, Manuela Zanescu (L2/24-215)

    • Recommendations to UTC #181 November 2024 on Script Proposals (L2/24-228) (See point 2.1.)

    • UTC #181 Minutes (L2/24-221) (See D.1 2.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2025-04-04 Unicode request for Cyrillic letter jeru with connecting bar — Kirk Miller (L2/25-112)

    • Recommendations to UTC #183 April 2025 on Script Proposals (L2/25-091) (See point 1.5.)

    • UTC #183 Minutes (L2/25-085) (See D.1 1.5 for decision and action items)