Titlo
The titlo is a diacritical mark that was used in old Cyrillic texts and is still used today in Church Slavonic . It is drawn as a zigzag line over text. Usually a zigzag line upwards is used, but sometimes a square bracket turned downwards is used.
One of their meanings was to distinguish Cyrillic numbers from normal letters. It was also used as an abbreviation symbol, with so-called noun sacra , for example the names for God and Christ, being abbreviated in this way. It was also used as a correction sign if a letter was left out and there was no more space to write it over the place.
Web links
Cyrillic: Range: 0400-04FF. (PDF, 277 kB) In: The Unicode Standard, Version 9.0. The Unicode Consortium, June 17, 2016, accessed on January 6, 2017 ( Combining Cyrillic Titlo is U + 0483).