U04C8

U04C8 refers to the Unicode code point U+04C8, commonly named Cyrillic Small Letter En with Tail. It is a member of the Cyrillic script and is used in certain languages that employ Cyrillic alphabets to represent phonemes not present in standard Russian orthography. Its uppercase counterpart is U+04C7, Cyrillic Capital Letter En with Tail.

Encoding and range: U+04C8 lies within the Cyrillic block (U+0400 to U+04FF). Its use is limited to specialized orthographies and scholarly transcription rather than everyday text in the core Russian language. Like other Cyrillic letters with extended shapes, its presence helps capture language-specific sounds in digital form.

Character representation and rendering: In Unicode text, U+04C8 is a single code point. In UTF-8, it is encoded as the two-byte sequence 0xD3 0x88; in UTF-16, it is represented as 0x04C8. Rendering depends on font support; many Cyrillic fonts include this character, while environments without appropriate font coverage may display a missing-glyph symbol.

Usage context: The character appears in linguistic data, dictionaries, and orthographies for languages that adopt Cyrillic scripts beyond those used for Russian. Its exact phonetic value is language-dependent and may denote a sound not found in the standard Cyrillic repertoire used for Russian.

See also: U+04C7 (Cyrillic Capital Letter En with Tail). References: Unicode Standard data for Cyrillic code points.