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Church Slavic Alphabet (Cyrillic)

The letters and characters of Church Slavic 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.

12Fonts cover the standard set
72Standard characters
1Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Church Slavic — 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
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
Дд De U+0414 · U+0434 2,006 / 1,953
Ее Ie U+0415 · U+0435 2,035 / 1,976
Єє Ukrainian Ie U+0404 · U+0454 1,810 / 1,748
Жж Zhe U+0416 · U+0436 2,010 / 1,948
Ѕѕ Dze U+0405 · U+0455 1,770 / 1,738
Зз Ze U+0417 · U+0437 2,024 / 1,953
Ꙁꙁ Zemlya U+A640 · U+A641 43 / 43
Ии Йй I U+0418 · U+0438 U+0419 · U+0439 2,018 / 1,963 1,994 / 1,942
Іі Її Byelorussian-Ukrainian I U+0406 · U+0456 U+0407 · U+0457 1,805 / 1,767 1,805 / 1,769
Кк Ka U+041A · U+043A 2,021 / 1,951
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
Ѻѻ Round Omega U+047A · U+047B 324 / 324
Оо O U+041E · U+043E 2,026 / 1,986
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
Ꙋꙋ Monograph Uk U+A64A · U+A64B 38 / 38
Фф Ef U+0424 · U+0444 2,006 / 1,944
Хх Ha U+0425 · U+0445 2,019 / 1,965
Ѡѡ Omega U+0460 · U+0461 450 / 448
Ѿѿ Ot U+047E · U+047F 345 / 345
Ꙍꙍ Broad Omega U+A64C · U+A64D 48 / 44
Ѽѽ Omega With Titlo U+047C · U+047D 344 / 344
Цц Tse U+0426 · U+0446 1,991 / 1,939
Чч Che U+0427 · U+0447 2,005 / 1,939
Шш Sha U+0428 · U+0448 1,999 / 1,945
Щщ Shcha U+0429 · U+0449 1,986 / 1,929
Ъъ Hard Sign U+042A · U+044A 1,987 / 1,928
Ыы Yeru U+042B · U+044B 1,990 / 1,929
Ьь Soft Sign U+042C · U+044C 1,995 / 1,935
Ѣѣ Yat U+0462 · U+0463 883 / 851
Юю Yu U+042E · U+044E 1,990 / 1,932
Ѫѫ Big Yus U+046A · U+046B 476 / 468
Ꙗꙗ Iotified A U+A656 · U+A657 60 / 60
Ѧѧ Little Yus U+0466 · U+0467 346 / 346
Ѯѯ Ksi U+046E · U+046F 361 / 362
Ѱѱ Psi U+0470 · U+0471 438 / 430
Ѳѳ Fita U+0472 · U+0473 904 / 848
Ѵѵ Ѷѷ Izhitsa U+0474 · U+0475 U+0476 · U+0477 782 / 757 439 / 438

Also in the standard set:

҇U+0487꙽U+A67D҃U+0483҂U+0482ⷠU+2DE0ⷡU+2DE1ⷢU+2DE2ⷣU+2DE3ⷤU+2DE4ⷥU+2DE5ⷦU+2DE6ⷧU+2DE7ⷨU+2DE8ⷩU+2DE9ⷪU+2DEAⷬU+2DECⷭU+2DEDⷯU+2DEFⷱU+2DF1ⸯU+2E2FꙿU+A67FⷴU+2DF4

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+005F-U+002D‐U+2010‑U+2011–U+2013—U+2014⹃U+2E43,U+002C;U+003B:U+003A!U+0021?U+003F.U+002E(U+0028)U+0029꙳U+A673/U+002F꙾U+A67E

Where Church Slavic (Cyrillic) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Church Slavic in the Cyrillic script.

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
Russia 0 0%

Church Slavic (Cyrillic) — facts

Font coverage 12 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 72 standard characters; 2 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, Cyrillic Extended-A, Supplemental Punctuation, Cyrillic Extended-B, Combining Half Marks

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