Palochka
| Palochka | |
|---|---|
| Ӏ ӏ | |
| 1 | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Languages of the Caucasus |
| Sound values | |
| In Unicode | U+04C0, U+04CF |
| History | |
| Development | |
| Time period | late 1930s–present |
| Variations | 1 |
| Other | |
| Writing direction | left-to-right |
The palochka (Ӏ ӏ; italic: Ӏ ӏ) 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 'I'. 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.