I have this comic book in Russian that uses characters I don't know from my Russian learning materials.
Please see my image. There are:
- small m
- и with line on top
- g
- mirrored s
Which 'standard' characters do they represent?
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-small m = т
-и with line on top = й
-g = д
-mirrored s = г
These are handwriting style characters, but some of them (m, -и with line on top and mirrored s in particular) are also used in italicized version of some Russian fonts, Arial and Times New Roman to name a few.
answered Jun 22 '18 at 19:22
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8Depending on your font setup, you may see them in context here: который, куда, глава. If you don’t get those forms of the characters, copy and paste it into somewhere you can edit the font/style, and set it to italic Times New Roman (or most other serif fonts). They’re very traditional alternative forms of the characters, both for handwriting and italic printed text. – PLL Jun 23 '18 at 14:25
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3@PLL interestingly, here in your example we can see the third variation of the look of
д: like curved Greek small delta, similar to partial derivative sign. This seems to be a more common shape for in computer fonts. – Ruslan Jun 24 '18 at 6:50 -
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Those are cursive forms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cursive
The letters you were surprised by are, in order listed, Тт Йй Дд Гг.
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In some fonts you might also encounter 'mirrored 6' which is 'small д'.
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Nobody posted these letters italicized yet, so here you go:
- Тт Тт
- Йй Йй
- Дд Дд
- Гг Гг
Examine this answer's markdown by clicking "edit" to make sure I didn't trick you :ь
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й? – Infiltrator Jun 25 '18 at 5:51йbut haven't encountered specifically its cursive glyph й – Баян Купи-ка Jun 25 '18 at 16:00йif he had encountered it already. – Infiltrator Jun 25 '18 at 22:48