Plane BMP Unused 0 reserved code points | Assigned 256 code points | |
Range U+0400..U+04FF
(256 code points) Scripts Cyrillic (254 characters)
Inherited (2 characters) Major alphabets Russian
Belorussian
Bulgarian
Abkhasian
Serbian | ||
Cyrillic is a Unicode block containing the characters used to write the most widely used languages with a Cyrillic orthography. The core of the block is based on the ISO 8859-5 standard, with additions for minority languages and historic orthographies.
References
Cyrillic (Unicode block) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA