Cyrillic Small Letter Long-Legged De ᲁ

Usage snapshot:

• Used in content written with the Cyrillic script; suitable for UI labels and body text.
• Appears in the Unicode block Cyrillic Extended-C.
• Avoid mixing with look‑alike letters from other scripts; keep the script consistent in documents and UIs.

History & usage: The character depicts the official name CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER LONG-LEGGED DE. Its name tokens include LETTER and LONG-LEGGED (a shape/qualifier), which signal generic roles in orthography and typography: a letter is a basic unit of a script, while a shape/qualifier notes a distinctive form that can affect legibility, pairing with typographic variants. In practice, these cues matter for how data is catalogued, taught, and reproduced across editions, primers, and reference works. This is a historical/specialized variant within the Cyrillic Extended-C block, used in contexts that require precise variant documentation.

Use contexts include scholarly editions and archival transcription of manuscripts where long-leggaged forms help distinguish features of the original copy; detailed dictionaries and grammars that document orthographic variants; and typographic revivals or specimen books that show how such forms were proposed or tested in print and display contexts.

Cyrillic is used across Eastern Europe and parts of Eurasia; examples include Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and Serbian, with roots in the medieval Slavic tradition.

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