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Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign

U+044C
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character ь
Decimal ь
Hex ь

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+044C
Decimal
1100
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
Ь U+042C

Looks Like (Confusables)

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

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 Soft Sign.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
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HTML Hex
ь
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
D1 8C
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
04 4C
UTF-32 Hex
0000044C
CSS Escape
\44C
JavaScript Escape
\u044C
Python Escape
\u044C
URL Encoded
%D1%8C
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Characters That Include This

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