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U+044C CHARACTER

CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN

Quick Facts

Unicode Name CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN
Code Point U+044C
Decimal Value 1100
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 8C
UTF-16 Code Unit 044C
UTF-32 4 bytes 0000044C
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 04 4C LE: 4C 04
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 04 4C LE: 4C 04 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ь
HTML Hexadecimal ь
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \00044C
JavaScript (ES6) \u044C
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u044C
JSON Escape \u044C
Python \u044C
PHP "\u{44C}"
Java "\u044C"
C / C++ "\u044C"
Rust '\u{44c}'
URL Percent-Encoded %D1%8C

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 Ь U+042C →

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+044C 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
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Context: A ь Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
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Context: A ь Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
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Context: A ь Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN

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

Identifier U+044C

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