Koppa (Cyrillic)

Koppa
Koppa
Ҁ ҁ
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
History
Development	Ϙ ϙ Ҁ ҁ;
Other
Associated numbers	90 (Cyrillic numerals)

Koppa (Ҁ ҁ; italics: Ҁ ҁ) is an archaic numeral character of the Cyrillic script. Its form (and modern name) are derived from some forms of the Greek letter Koppa (Ϙ ϙ).^[1]^[2]

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Thumb — Early Cyrillic numeral character Koppa (90)

Koppa was used as a numeral character in the oldest Cyrillic manuscripts, representing the value 90 (exactly as its Greek ancestor did). It was replaced relatively early around 1300 by the Cyrillic letter Che (Ч ч), which is similar in appearance and originally had no numeric value. Isolated examples of Ч used as a numeral are found in the East and South Slavonic areas as early as the eleventh century, though Koppa continued in regular use into the fourteenth century. In some varieties of Western Cyrillic, however, Koppa was retained, and Ч used with the value 60, replacing the Cyrillic letter Ksi (Ѯ ѯ).

Cyrillic Koppa never had a phonetic value and was never used as a letter by any national language using Cyrillic. However, certain modern textbooks and dictionaries of Old Church Slavonic language insert this character among other letters of the early Cyrillic alphabet, either between П and Р (to reproduce the Greek alphabetical order) or at the very end of the list.

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Preview	Ҁ		ҁ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KOPPA		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KOPPA
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1152	U+0480	1153	U+0481
UTF-8	210 128	D2 80	210 129	D2 81
Numeric character reference	Ҁ	Ҁ	ҁ	ҁ

Koppa (Cyrillic)

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