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Also known as Ӏ, ӏ, palochka (Cyrillic)

The palochka () is a letter in the Cyrillic script. The letter is usually caseless. It was introduced in the late 1930s as the Hindu-Arabic digit '1'; on Cyrillic keyboards, it is usually typeset as the Roman numeral ''. Unicode currently supports both caseless/capital palochka at U+04C0 and a rarer lower-case palochka at U+04CF. The palochka marks glottal(ized) and pharyngeal(ized) consonants.

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Grapheme.letter
Ӏ ӏ
Grapheme.script
Cyrillic
Grapheme.type
Alphabet
Grapheme.typedesc
ic
Grapheme.name
Palochka
Grapheme.image
Cyrillic letter palochka - uppercase and lowercase.svg
Grapheme.imageclass
skin-invert
Grapheme.fam1
F1
Grapheme.fam2
class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Sinaitic 'alp
Grapheme.fam3
class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Caananite aleph
Grapheme.fam4
𐤀
Grapheme.fam5
𐡀
Grapheme.fam6
𐢀 ,𐢁
Grapheme.fam7
ا
Grapheme.variations
1
Grapheme.usageperiod
late 1930s–present
Grapheme.direction
left-to-right
Grapheme.unicode
U+04C0, U+04CF

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The palochka () is a letter in the Cyrillic script. The letter is usually caseless. It was introduced in the late 1930s as the Hindu-Arabic digit '1'; on Cyrillic keyboards, it is usually typeset as the Roman numeral ''. Unicode currently supports both caseless/capital palochka at U+04C0 and a rarer lower-case palochka at U+04CF. The palochka marks glottal(ized) and pharyngeal(ized) consonants.

==Form== The letter looks similar to the digit 1. Its uppercase form resembles the Latin Letter I (I i) in uppercase form, while its lowercase form resembles the Latin letter L (L l) in lowercase form.

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