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Azerbaijani Alphabet (Cyrillic)

The letters and characters of Azerbaijani written in the Cyrillic script, in order — every standard character with its name and codepoint, the additional and punctuation sets, and exactly how many fonts include them. About 1,185,333 people read or write it across 2 countries.

Azerbaijani is also written in: (Arabic)(Latin)

704Fonts cover the standard set
33Standard characters
1,185,333People
2Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Azerbaijani — the language's alphabet, in its traditional order. Tap a character to copy it; each name opens the full character page. The Fonts column counts how many fonts include each letter, in the same order as the letters and codepoints; an accented form under a letter gets its own codepoint and count line beneath it.

LetterNameCodepointsFontsper letter, in order
Аа A U+0410 · U+0430 2,034 / 1,987
Әә Schwa U+04D8 · U+04D9 1,121 / 1,162
Бб Be U+0411 · U+0431 2,019 / 1,951
Вв Ve U+0412 · U+0432 2,034 / 1,951
Гг Ghe U+0413 · U+0433 2,023 / 1,956
Ғғ Ghe With Stroke U+0492 · U+0493 951 / 948
Дд De U+0414 · U+0434 2,006 / 1,953
Ее Ie U+0415 · U+0435 2,035 / 1,976
Жж Zhe U+0416 · U+0436 2,010 / 1,948
Зз Ze U+0417 · U+0437 2,024 / 1,953
Ии Йй I U+0418 · U+0438 U+0419 · U+0439 2,018 / 1,963 1,994 / 1,942
Јј Je U+0408 · U+0458 1,790 / 1,740
Кк Ka U+041A · U+043A 2,021 / 1,951
Ҝҝ Ka With Vertical Stroke U+049C · U+049D 709 / 709
Лл El U+041B · U+043B 2,013 / 1,953
Мм Em U+041C · U+043C 2,021 / 1,943
Нн En U+041D · U+043D 2,025 / 1,958
Оо O U+041E · U+043E 2,026 / 1,986
Өө Barred O U+04E8 · U+04E9 1,142 / 1,142
Пп Pe U+041F · U+043F 2,038 / 1,966
Рр Er U+0420 · U+0440 2,027 / 1,974
Сс Es U+0421 · U+0441 2,027 / 1,977
Тт Te U+0422 · U+0442 2,024 / 1,956
Уу U U+0423 · U+0443 2,015 / 1,967
Үү Straight U U+04AE · U+04AF 1,115 / 1,092
Фф Ef U+0424 · U+0444 2,006 / 1,944
Хх Ha U+0425 · U+0445 2,019 / 1,965
Һһ Shha U+04BA · U+04BB 1,064 / 1,056
Чч Che U+0427 · U+0447 2,005 / 1,939
Ҹҹ Che With Vertical Stroke U+04B8 · U+04B9 832 / 831
Шш Sha U+0428 · U+0448 1,999 / 1,945
Ыы Yeru U+042B · U+044B 1,990 / 1,929

Additional Characters

Used for foreign words, names and technical terms, and older forms of the language.

Punctuation characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning.

-U+002D‐U+2010‑U+2011,U+002C;U+003B:U+003A!U+0021?U+003F.U+002E(U+0028)U+0029[U+005B]U+005D{U+007B}U+007D

Where Azerbaijani (Cyrillic) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Azerbaijani in the Cyrillic script. The map is zoomed to the region where at least 1% of a country's people read it; neighbouring countries are shown unshaded for context.

50% or more of the country 10–50% 1–10% under 1% not listed for this language

Estimated readers — share of each country's population (CLDR).

CountryEstimated readersShare of population
Azerbaijan 1,054,370 9.9%
Russia 130,964 0.09%

Azerbaijani (Cyrillic) — facts

Font coverage 704 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 33 standard characters; 704 include the standard and additional sets together. Counts are exact for the snapshot of 21 October 2026.
Script Cyrillic
Unicode blocks Basic Latin, Cyrillic, General Punctuation
People About 1,185,333 people read or write Azerbaijani in the Cyrillic script — mostly in Azerbaijan, Russia.
Also written in Azerbaijani (Arabic), Azerbaijani (Latin)

Data: Unicode CLDR exemplar characters (CLDR 48.2.0) and CLDR territory population data. Font counts: snapshot of 21 October 2026.