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U+0423 CHARACTER

CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER U

Quick Facts

Unicode Name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER U
Code Point U+0423
Decimal Value 1059
General Category Uppercase Letter (Lu) →
Unicode Block Cyrillic →
Script Cyrillic →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 2 bytes D0 A3
UTF-16 Code Unit 0423
UTF-32 4 bytes 00000423
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 04 23 LE: 23 04
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 04 23 LE: 23 04 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal У
HTML Hexadecimal У
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \000423
JavaScript (ES6) \u0423
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u0423
JSON Escape \u0423
Python \u0423
PHP "\u{423}"
Java "\u0423"
C / C++ "\u0423"
Rust '\u{423}'
URL Percent-Encoded %D0%A3

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0 — Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class L — Left-to-Right
Bidi Mirrored No

Case Mapping & Numeric Data

Lowercase Mapping у U+0443 →

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+0423 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
У
Context: A У Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
У
Context: A У Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
У
Context: A У Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
У
Context: A У Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER U

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+0423

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