а
U+0430

CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A

Ll — Lowercase Letter
Cyrillic
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
1072

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 D0 B0 208 176 2
UTF-16 LE 30 04 48 4 2
UTF-16 BE 04 30 4 48 2
UTF-32 LE 30 04 00 00 48 4 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 04 30 0 0 4 48 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) not supported
Windows-1252 not supported
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) D0 208 1
KOI8-R C1 193 1
Shift-JIS 84 70 132 112 2
EUC-JP A7 D1 167 209 2
GBK A7 D1 167 209 2
Big5 C7 C8 199 200 2

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

none
а
а
\430
\u0430
%D0%B0
\u0430
1072

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 2 bytes. The leading 110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 2-byte sequence. Bytes 2+ begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
D0
·
Byte 2
1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
B0
UTF-8: D0 B0 · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+0430

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right
Uppercase: U+0410 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A
Titlecase: U+0410 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A

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