Cyrillic (Unicode block)
| Cyrillic | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+0400..U+04FF (256 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Cyrillic (254 characters) Inherited (2 characters) |
| Major alphabets | Russian Ukrainian Belarusian Bulgarian Serbian Macedonian Abkhaz |
| Assigned | 256 code points |
| Unused | 0 reserved code points |
| Source standards | ISO 8859-5 |
| Unicode version history | |
| 1.0.0 (1991) | 192 (+192) |
| 1.0.1 (1992) | 188 (-4) |
| 1.1 (1993) | 226 (+38) |
| 3.0 (1999) | 238 (+12) |
| 3.2 (2002) | 246 (+8) |
| 4.1 (2005) | 248 (+2) |
| 5.0 (2006) | 255 (+7) |
| 5.1 (2008) | 256 (+1) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: Four characters (two upper and lower case letter pairs) were removed from the Cyrillic block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646. | |
Cyrillic is a Unicode block containing the characters used to write the most widely used languages with a Cyrillic orthography. The core of the block is based on the ISO 8859-5 standard, with additions for minority languages and historic orthographies.