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U+044C · CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN

Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign

  • CodepointU+044C
  • NameCYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN
  • Decimal1100
  • BlockCyrillic (U+0400–U+04FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCyrillic
  • CategoryLl — Lowercase Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+044C (ь) is CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN, a lowercase letter in the Cyrillic block. It belongs to the Cyrillic script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its uppercase form is U+042C Ь.

How to type ь

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8D1 8C2 bytes
UTF-16044C1 code unit
UTF-320000044C4 bytes
HTML namedьnamed character reference
HTML decimalь
HTML hexь
CSS\44Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u044C
JSON\u044C
Python\u044C
Python\N{CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN}by name
Java / C#\u044C
C / C++\u044Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{44C}
Go\u044C
Ruby\u044C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1100)
URL-encoded%D1%8Cpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+0185ƅLatin Small Letter Tone Six U+AB9FꮟCherokee Small Letter Si
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Characters built on ь

U+A69DꚝModifier Letter Cyrillic Soft Sign
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Nearby in Cyrillic

All in block →
U+0446цCyrillic Small Letter Tse U+0447чCyrillic Small Letter Che U+0448шCyrillic Small Letter Sha U+0449щCyrillic Small Letter Shcha U+044AъCyrillic Small Letter Hard Sign U+044BыCyrillic Small Letter Yeru U+044DэCyrillic Small Letter E U+044EюCyrillic Small Letter Yu U+044FяCyrillic Small Letter Ya U+0450ѐCyrillic Small Letter Ie with Grave U+0451ёCyrillic Small Letter Io U+0452ђCyrillic Small Letter Dje