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U+044A

CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HARD SIGN

Ll — Lowercase Letter
Cyrillic
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
1098

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HARD SIGN 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 D1 8A 209 138 2
UTF-16 LE 4A 04 74 4 2
UTF-16 BE 04 4A 4 74 2
UTF-32 LE 4A 04 00 00 74 4 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 04 4A 0 0 4 74 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) EA 234 1
KOI8-R DF 223 1
Shift-JIS 84 8C 132 140 2
EUC-JP A7 EC 167 236 2
GBK A7 EC 167 236 2
Big5 C7 E3 199 227 2

Escape Sequences

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

none
ъ
ъ
\44A
\u044A
%D1%8A
\u044a
1098

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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 1
D1
·
Byte 2
1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
8A
UTF-8: D1 8A · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+044A

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right
Uppercase: U+042A CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER HARD SIGN
Titlecase: U+042A CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER HARD SIGN

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