Soft De

Soft De (Ꙣ ꙣ; italics: Ꙣ ꙣ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.^[1]

Soft De
Ꙣ ꙣ
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Old Church Slavonic
Sound values	[dʲ]
History
Development	Д҄ Ꙣ ꙣ
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Soft De has seen rare use in certain Old Church Slavonic editions as a fused form of Д҄, denoting a palatalized Д.^[2]

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Ꙣ		ꙣ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SOFT DE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT DE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	42594	U+A662	42595	U+A663
UTF-8	234 153 162	EA 99 A2	234 153 163	EA 99 A3
Numeric character reference	Ꙣ	Ꙣ	ꙣ	ꙣ

See also

• Cyrillic characters in Unicode
• Cyrillization of Arabic