ꙮ (U+A66E) is a Unicode character originating from a single phrase from a version of the Book of Psalms written in an extinct language, Old Church Slavonic. It was written in 1429 and is in Russia.
The character is used as a stylised version of the Cyrillic O (U+041E), and is used in the phrase "серафими многоꙮчитїи", meaning "many-eyed seraphim". A seraph (plural seraphim) is a type of angel.
It had one recorded use and was still wrong
This character was incorporated into the Unicode standard but mistakenly only included 7 eyes in the description when the original character has 10.
This was updated in version 15.0.0 of the Unicode specification when Jonty Wareing, the person who originally transcribed the character for the spec, noticed the error in a tweet discussing the history of the character.
Related Characters
ꙮ is related to other ocular and multiocular Cyrillic O's, such as:
- Ꙩ (U+A668)
- ꙩ (U+A669)
- Ꙫ (U+A66A)
- ꙫ (U+A66B)
- Ꙭ (U+A66C)
- ꙭ (U+A66D)