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Semisoft sign is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

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Semisoft sign is used in the alphabet of the Kildin Sami language

Kildin Sami language

Kildin Sami is a Sami language spoken by approximately 600 people on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia...

, where it indicates palatalization

Palatalization

In linguistics, palatalization , also palatization, may refer to two different processes by which a sound, usually a consonant, comes to be produced with the tongue in a position in the mouth near the palate....

(sometimes also called "half-palatalization") of a preceding stop, /nʲ/, /tʲ/, or /dʲ/.

Computing codes

character
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SEMISOFT SIGN		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SEMISOFT SIGN
character encoding	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...	1164	048C	1165	048D
UTF-8 UTF-8 UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks...	210 140	D2 8C	210 141	D2 8D
Numeric character reference Numeric character reference A numeric character reference is a common markup construct used in SGML and other SGML-related markup languages such as HTML and XML. It consists of a short sequence of characters that, in turn, represent a single character from the Universal Character Set of Unicode...	Ҍ	Ҍ	ҍ	ҍ

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