Psi (Ѱ, ѱ; italics: Ѱ ѱ) is a letter in the early Cyrillic alphabet, derived from the Greek letter of the same name (
Psi was eliminated from the Russian orthography, along with ksi, omega, and the yuses, in the Civil Script of 1708 (Peter the Great's Grazhdansky Shrift), and it has also been dropped from other secular languages. It continues to be used in Church Slavonic.
Computing codes
editPreview | Ѱ | ѱ | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER PSI | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER PSI | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1136 | U+0470 | 1137 | U+0471 |
UTF-8 | 209 176 | D1 B0 | 209 177 | D1 B1 |
Numeric character reference | Ѱ |
Ѱ |
ѱ |
ѱ |
See also
edit- Psi (disambiguation), for other meanings.
Notes
edit- ^ Simovyč 1963, p 515a.
References
edit- Cyrillic alphabet (Кириллица) at Omniglot
- Simovyč, V. and J.B. Rudnycky, "The History of Ukrainian Orthography", in Kubijovyč, Volodymyr ed. (1963), Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopædia, v 1. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-3105-6.