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U+042C CHARACTER

CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SOFT SIGN

Quick Facts

Unicode Name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SOFT SIGN
Code Point U+042C
Decimal Value 1068
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 AC
UTF-16 Code Unit 042C
UTF-32 4 bytes 0000042C
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 04 2C LE: 2C 04
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 04 2C LE: 2C 04 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal Ь
HTML Hexadecimal Ь
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \00042C
JavaScript (ES6) \u042C
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u042C
JSON Escape \u042C
Python \u042C
PHP "\u{42C}"
Java "\u042C"
C / C++ "\u042C"
Rust '\u{42c}'
URL Percent-Encoded %D0%AC

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 ь U+044C →

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+042C across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

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

Names & Aliases

Official Name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SOFT SIGN

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

Identifier U+042C

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