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U+044A CHARACTER

CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HARD SIGN

Quick Facts

Unicode Name CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HARD SIGN
Code Point U+044A
Decimal Value 1098
General Category Lowercase Letter (Ll) →
Unicode Block Cyrillic →
Script Cyrillic →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 2 bytes D1 8A
UTF-16 Code Unit 044A
UTF-32 4 bytes 0000044A
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 04 4A LE: 4A 04
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 04 4A LE: 4A 04 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ъ
HTML Hexadecimal ъ
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \00044A
JavaScript (ES6) \u044A
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u044A
JSON Escape \u044A
Python \u044A
PHP "\u{44A}"
Java "\u044A"
C / C++ "\u044A"
Rust '\u{44a}'
URL Percent-Encoded %D1%8A

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

Uppercase Mapping Ъ U+042A →

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+044A across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

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

Names & Aliases

Official Name CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HARD SIGN

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

Identifier U+044A

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