List of Cyrillic letters


This is a list of letters of the Cyrillic script. The definition of a Cyrillic letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode standard that a has script property of 'Cyrillic' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Cyrillic letters in Unicode is given in Cyrillic script in Unicode.

Letters contained in the Russian alphabet

Letters contained in the Russian alphabet.
АаБбВвГгДдЕеËëЖжЗзИи
ЙйКкЛлМмНнОоПпРрСсТт
УуФфХхЦцЧчШшЩщЪъЫыЬь
ЭэЮюЯя

Other letters

LetterNameLanguages/alphabetsNotes
Ә ә[Kazakh language|Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir language|Bashkir, Abkhaz]
Ԝ ԝKurdish, Yaghnobi, Tundra Yukaghir
Variant of normal ve
Ԁ ԁKomi
Variant of normal de
Ꙣ ꙣOld Church Slavonic
Ђ ђMontenegrin, Serbian
Ԃ ԃKomi
Ꚁ ꚁAbkhaz replaced by Дә
Є єUkrainian, Khanty
Ԑ ԑEnets, Khanty
Ѕ ѕMacedonian
Ꙅ ꙅOld Church Slavonic, Ukrainian, Russian, Romanianvariant of Ѕ
Abkhaz
Ꙃ ꙃEarly Cyrillic alphabetas variant of, and replaced by Ѕ
Ӡ ӡAbkhaz, Uilta
Ꚃ ꚃAbkhaz replaced by Ӡә
Ꙁ ꙁEarly Cyrillic alphabetas variant of, and replaced by З
Ԅ ԅKomi
Ԇ ԇKomi
І іBelarusian, Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh, Khakas, Komi, Rusyn
Ꙇ ꙇCyrillic transcription of Glagolitic
Ј јSerbian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Kildin Sami, Azerbaijani, Udmurt, Orok
Ꙉ ꙉChurch SlavonicReplaced by Ћ and Ђ
Ԉ ԉKomi
Ԛ ԛOld Abkhaz, Kurdish
Uralic Phonetic Alphabet
Ꙥ ꙥOld Church Slavonic
Ꙧ ꙧOld Church Slavonic
Bezhta, Hunzib, Godoberi
Ԋ ԋKomi
Ө ө Bashkir, Buryat, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Khanty, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Tuvan, Mongolian, Yakut, Azerbaijani (to 1991)
Ꚛ ꚛOld Church Slavonic
Ꙩ ꙩEarly Cyrillic
Ꙫ ꙫEarly CyrillicExotic
Early Cyrillic Appearance changed in Unicode 15.0.Ex: серафими многоꙮчитїи
Ѻ ѻEarly CyrillicVariant of O
Ҁ ҁOld Church Slavonicnumerical usage only
Ԍ ԍKomi
Ԏ ԏKomi
Ᲊ ᲊKhanty
Ꚍ ꚍAbkhazreplaced by Тә
Ћ ћSerbian
Ү ү Kazakh, Mongolian, Karakalpak, Tatar, Bashkir, Kyrgyz, Dungan
Һ һ/, ""Kazakh, Bashkir, Siberian Tatar, Sakha, Kalmyk
Ꚕ ꚕAbkhazreplaced by Ҳә
Ѡ ѡEarly Cyrillic
Ѽ ѽSlavic languages
Ꙍ ꙍSlavic languages
Ꙡ ꙡOld Novgorodian birchbark
Ꚏ ꚏAbkhazreplaced by Цә
Ҽ ҽAbkhaz
Џ џSerbian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Abkhazian, Romanian
Ꚗ ꚗAbkhazreplaced by Шә
Ꙏ ꙏLate Medieval Russian transcriptionused when yers are indistinguishable from each other
Ѣ ѣEarly Cyrillic, Proto-Slavic, Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Rusyn
Ҩ ҩAbkhaz
Ꙕ ꙕEarly East Slavic, Early Bulgarian
Ӏ ӏAbaza, Adyghe, Avar, Chechen, Dargwa, Ingush, Kabardian, Lak, Lezgian, Tabassaran
Ѧ ѧCommon Slavonic, Early Cyrillic
Ꙙ ꙙCommon Slavonic, Early Cyrillic, Middle Bulgarian
Ѫ ѫCommon Slavonic, Early Cyrillic
Ꙛ ꙛMiddle Bulgarian
Ѯ ѯEarly Cyrillic, Church Slavonic,Romanized Ks or X
Ѱ ѱEarly Cyrillic
Ѳ ѳEarly Cyrilliccf. Greek Θ θ
Ѵ ѵUdmurt, Abkhaz, Russian, Serbian, Church Slavonic
Ꙟ ꙟRomanian
Оу оуEarly Cyrillic alphabet
Lezgin, Dargin

Sound values

Variants of the Cyrillic script are used by the writing systems of many languages, especially languages used in the countries with the significant presence of Slavic peoples. The tables below list the Cyrillic letters in use in various modern languages and show the primary sounds they represent in them. Letter forms with a combined diacritic which are not considered separate letters in any language are excluded from the tables, with the exception of ѐ and ѝ. The highlighted letters are those of the basic Cyrillic alphabet; archaic letters no longer in use in any language today are not listed.

Summary table