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?
-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 -
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.
In some fonts you might also encounter 'mirrored 6' which is 'small д'.
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