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As of Unicode version 9.0 Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks, all in the BMP:
The characters in the range U+0400–U+045F are basically the characters from ISO 8859-5 moved upward by 864 positions. The next characters in the Cyrillic block, range U+0460–U+0489, are historical letters, some being still used for Church Slavonic. The characters in the range U+048A–U+04FF and the complete Cyrillic Supplement block (U+0500-U+052F) are additional letters for various languages that are written with Cyrillic script. Two characters in the block Phonetic Extensions block complete the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet: U+1D2B ᴫ CYRILLIC LETTER SMALL CAPITAL EL and U+1D78 ᵸ MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC EN.
Unicode includes few precomposed accented Cyrillic letters; the others can be combined by adding U+0301 ("combining acute accent") after the accented vowel (e.g., ы́ э́ ю́ я́) (see below).
The following two diacritical marks not specific to Cyrillic can be used with Cyrillic text:
In the table below, small letters are ordered according to their Unicode numbers; capital letters are placed immediately before the corresponding small letters. Standard Unicode names and canonical decompositions are included.
Not considered a separate letter, but merely the letter Е with a grave accent.
Considered a separate letter, after the letter Е, but not collated separately from Е in Russian.
Invented as a new letter, placed between Д and Е.