List of Cyrillic letters

This is a list of letters of the Cyrillic script. The definition of a Cyrillic letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode standard that a has script property of 'Cyrillic' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Cyrillic letters in Unicode is given in Cyrillic script in Unicode.

Letters contained in the Russian alphabet

Letters contained in the Russian alphabet.

Letters unused in Russian alphabet

Extensions

Letters with diacritics

Ligatures

Position Cyrillic letters in alphabet

Variants of Cyrillic are used by the writing systems of many languages, especially languages used in the countries with the significant presence of Slavic peoples. The tables below list the Cyrillic letters in use in various modern languages and show the primary sounds they represent in them (see the articles on the specific languages for more detail). Letter forms with a combined diacritic which are not considered separate letters in any language (notably vowels with accent marks which are sometimes used in some languages to indicate stress and/or tone) are excluded from the tables, with the exception of ѐ and ѝ^[a]. The highlighted letters are those of the basic (original) Cyrillic alphabet; archaic letters no longer in use in any language today are not listed.

For letters not on this list, see Template:Infobox Cyrillic letter.

Summary table

See also

• Cyrillic script
• Cyrillic digraphs
• Cyrillic characters in Unicode
• Languages using Cyrillic
• List of Latin letters

Notes

• There are many languages that use two or more scripts, for example Latin or Arabic.
• In Belarusian and Ukrainian there is an apostrophe to indicate de-palatalization of the preceding consonant.
• Azerbaijani has the apostrophe ⟨ʼ⟩ as a letter.
• Nenets has the apostrophe ⟨ʼ⟩ and double apostrophe ⟨ˮ⟩ as letters.

References

External links

• Cyrillic Alphabets of Slavic Languages review of Cyrillic charsets in Slavic Languages.
• Unicode collation charts—including Cyrillic letters, sorted by shape