COMBINING CYRILLIC MILLIONS SIGN character

COMBINING CYRILLIC MILLIONS SIGN
U+0489
1161
҉
҉
Me (Enclosing Mark)
NSM (Nonspacing Mark)
N
0
Cyrillic
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
҉












COMBINING CYRILLIC MILLIONS SIGN is an enclosing combining mark from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of COMBINING CYRILLIC MILLIONS SIGN is Nonspacing Mark (Weak). It belongs to the non-spacing marks, which take on the directionality of the characters to which they attach..

The Nonspacing Mark (NSM) bidi class is assigned to diacritical marks that do not occupy their own space but modify the preceding base character. NSMs are neutral in directionality but inherit the directionality of the base character they are attached to. They are essential for the accurate representation of characters with diacritics in bidirectional text.

Enclosing Mark (Me) refers to marks that enclose or surround a base character, modifying its meaning or pronunciation. These marks are used in scripts like Arabic and Tibetan, where they often serve religious or grammatical functions. Enclosing marks are rare compared to nonspacing and spacing marks.

This character belongs to the Cyrillic block. The Cyrillic block includes characters used for writing the Cyrillic script, which is employed in various languages across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, including Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and many others. Developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th century, the Cyrillic script is named after Saint Cyril, one of the creators of the Glagolitic alphabet. The block contains letters used in modern languages, as well as historical letters that were used in older forms of these languages. The Cyrillic script is also widely used in computing and digital text processing within these regions..