Cyrillic
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- noun
- /sɪˈrɪlɪk/
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alfabeto cirílico
- In the Russian, or Cyrillic, alphabet, their capital N is written like our capital H.
- Cyrillic letters
- Cyrillic script
- write in Cyrillic
What is this AC in ASCII in the Latin alphabet, or is this AC in Cyrillic?
- What is this AC in ASCII in the Latin alphabet, or is this AC in Cyrillic?
- So, well, it's, it's, you know, it's, it's a, it takes a moment to read Cyrillic.
Examples
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Signs are in Cyrillic now.
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The Ukhovas had a great trove of illuminated manuscripts in Cyrillic, Greek, and even French and Latin, including beautiful copies of Froissart.
Fiction book (2000) -
What does the Cyrillic say?
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I taught myself Cyrillic over a weekend using the list of Russian letters under the entry for alphabet.
Blog text (5) -
On this remote Serbian hillside, I had not expected to find my name, in Cyrillic letters, etched into stone.
Academic text (1992) -
The Syria-bound trucks, with a bizarre cargo of missiles, rockets, and ammunition in boxes marked in Cyrillic, were escorted by Turkish intelligence officers.
Academic text (2015) -
Since Alspeke was written mostly in Cyrillic letters, he had no trouble reading Moskovskaya Fondovaya Birzha, and when he murmured it aloud, a soft atonal voice in his ear translated: Moscow Stock Exchange.
Fiction book (2000) -
Hawkers push pamphlets of the outlying palaces—Pushkin, Pavlovsk, and Petrodvorets—hoping that visitors, unable to read the Cyrillic titles, will mistake them for the Hermitage.
Academic text (1992) -
Veronica stared once more at the Cyrillic list before her.
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The signs outside the shops were written in the Cyrillic of Serbian, not the Roman letters of the now-ubiquitous Albanian.
Synonyms
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An alphabet used to write many Slavic languages like Russian and Bulgarian
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cyrillic was named for Saint Cyril, whose work led to the alphabet used by many Slavic nations. So the Cyrillic alphabet is the set of letters you see in Russian, Bulgarian, and Serbian writing.