COMBINING CYRILLIC PALATALIZATION character

COMBINING CYRILLIC PALATALIZATION
U+0484
1156
҄
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CYRILLIC NON-SPACING PALATALIZATION
Mn (Nonspacing Mark)
NSM (Nonspacing Mark)
N
230
Cyrillic
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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COMBINING CYRILLIC PALATALIZATION is a nonspacing combining mark (zero advance width) from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of COMBINING CYRILLIC PALATALIZATION 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.

Nonspacing Mark (Mn) refers to diacritical marks that do not occupy their own space but instead combine with a preceding base character to modify its sound or meaning. Nonspacing marks are essential in many scripts, including Latin, Arabic, and Devanagari, for accurate representation of text.

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..