Cyrillic (Unicode block)

Cyrillic
RangeU+0400..U+04FF
(256 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCyrillic (254 characters)
Inherited (2 characters)
Major alphabetsRussian
Ukrainian
Belarusian
Bulgarian
Serbian
Macedonian
Abkhaz
Assigned256 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Source standardsISO 8859-5
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)192 (+192)
1.0.1 (1992)188 (-4)
1.1 (1993)226 (+38)
3.0 (1999)238 (+12)
3.2 (2002)246 (+8)
4.1 (2005)248 (+2)
5.0 (2006)255 (+7)
5.1 (2008)256 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: Four characters (two upper and lower case letter pairs) were removed from the Cyrillic block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646.[1][2][3]

Cyrillic is a Unicode block containing the characters used to write the most widely used languages with a Cyrillic orthography. The core of the block is based on the ISO 8859-5 standard, with additions for minority languages and historic orthographies.

  1. ^ "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.