ж
U+0436

CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZHE

Ll — Lowercase Letter
Cyrillic
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
1078

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZHE 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 B6 208 182 2
UTF-16 LE 36 04 54 4 2
UTF-16 BE 04 36 4 54 2
UTF-32 LE 36 04 00 00 54 4 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 04 36 0 0 4 54 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) D6 214 1
KOI8-R D6 214 1
Shift-JIS 84 77 132 119 2
EUC-JP A7 D8 167 216 2
GBK A7 D8 167 216 2
Big5 C7 CF 199 207 2

Escape Sequences

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

none
ж
ж
\436
\u0436
%D0%B6
\u0436
1078

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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 1 1 0
B6
UTF-8: D0 B6 · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+0436

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right
Uppercase: U+0416 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHE
Titlecase: U+0416 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHE

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