What are these Russian characters that aren't in the alphabet in my learning material?

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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?

Here is a related/duplicate question with an extensive answer: https://russian.stackexchange.com/a/13538/4903 — Vitaly, Jun 25 '18 at 13:29
@Infiltrator i believe he did encounter й but haven't encountered specifically its cursive glyph *й* — Баян Купи-ка, Jun 25 '18 at 16:00
@БаянКупи-ка, да и может быть. But he did correctly identify it as "и with line on top", so I am just curious why he did not equate that with й if he had encountered it already. — Infiltrator, Jun 25 '18 at 22:48

score 42 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 30 '22 at 20:11

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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 the italicized versions of some Russian fonts like Arial and Times New Roman, to name a couple.

edited Aug 30 '22 at 20:11

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answered Jun 22 '18 at 19:22

Баян Купи-ка

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Depending 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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@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 06:50
you mean this? https://russian.stackexchange.com/questions/2919/when-to-use-%e2%88%82-and-when-to-use-the-g-type-for-little-%d0%b4 :-D – Arioch Jun 25 '18 at 12:47

score 29 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 22 '18 at 19:20

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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.

answered Jun 22 '18 at 19:20

Roman Odaisky

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score 9 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 22 '18 at 21:10

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

answered Jun 22 '18 at 21:10

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score 7 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 25 '18 at 09:42

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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

answered Jun 25 '18 at 09:42

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the lower case д is obstinate – Баян Купи-ка Jun 25 '18 at 14:44

What are these Russian characters that aren't in the alphabet in my learning material?

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