ъ

Cyrillic Small Letter Hard Sign

U+044A
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character ъ
Decimal ъ
Hex ъ

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+044A
Decimal
1098
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Lowercase Letter (Ll)
Script
Cyrillic
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width
A Ambiguous
Properties
Alphabetic ID Start ID Continue
Uppercase
Ъ U+042A

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

ˉb U+02C9 U+0062

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Cyrillic Small Letter Hard Sign.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
ъ
HTML Hex
ъ
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
D1 8A
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
04 4A
UTF-32 Hex
0000044A
CSS Escape
\44A
JavaScript Escape
\u044A
Python Escape
\u044A
URL Encoded
%D1%8A
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Characters That Include This

These characters decompose to a sequence that includes Cyrillic Small Letter Hard Sign as a component. They are effectively precomposed versions or compounds built on this base character.