Soft Em

Soft Em (Ꙧ ꙧ; italics: Ꙧ ꙧ ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Soft Em has seen rare use in certain Old Church Slavonic editions as a fused form of М҄, denoting a palatalized М.^[1]

Soft Em
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Old Church Slavonic
Sound values	[mʲ], [ɱ]
In Unicode	U+A666, U+A667
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.

The font DejaVu has the glyph in Cyrillic Extended-B.

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Ꙧ		ꙧ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SOFT EM		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT EM
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	42598	U+A666	42599	U+A667
UTF-8	234 153 166	EA 99 A6	234 153 167	EA 99 A7
Numeric character reference	Ꙧ	Ꙧ	ꙧ	ꙧ

See also

• Cyrillic characters in Unicode