U+042A Cyrillic Capital Letter Hard Sign
U+042A was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Cyrillic in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Cyrillic script. It is related to its lowercase variant Cyrillic Small Letter Hard Sign.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+042A behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Upper for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The letter Ъ (italics Ъ, ъ) of the Cyrillic script is known as er golyam (ер голям – "big er") in the Bulgarian alphabet, as the hard sign (Russian: твёрдый знак, romanized: tvjórdyj znak, pronounced [ˈtvʲɵrdɨj ˈznak], Rusyn: твердый знак, romanized: tverdyj znak) in the modern Russian and Rusyn alphabets (although in Rusyn, ъ could also be known as ір), as the debelo jer (дебело їер, "fat er") in pre-reform Serbian orthography, and as ayirish belgisi in the Uzbek Cyrillic alphabet. The letter is called back yer or back jer and yor or jor in the pre-reform Russian orthography, in Old East Slavic, and in Old Church Slavonic.
Originally the yer denoted an ultra-short or reduced middle rounded vowel. It is one of two reduced vowels that are collectively known as the yers in Slavic philology.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 1066 |
| UTF-8 | D0 AA |
| UTF-16 | 04 2A |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 04 2A |
| URL-Quoted | %D0%AA |
| HTML-Escape | Ъ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ъ |
| HTML-Escape | Ъ |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | AC BC |
| Encoding: IBM866 (hex bytes) | 9A |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-5 (hex bytes) | CA |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A7 BC |
| Encoding: KOI8-R (hex bytes) | FF |
| Encoding: KOI8-U (hex bytes) | FF |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | DA |
| Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | 9A |
| LATEX | \cyrchar\CYRHRDSN |
| Adobe Glyph List | Hardsigncyrillic |
| Adobe Glyph List | afii10044 |
| digraph | =" |
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER HARD SIGN | |
| — | |
| Cyrillic | |
| Uppercase Letter | |
| Cyrillic | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Hard Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Hard Sign | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Hard Sign | |
| ✔ | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Hard Sign | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Hard Sign | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Hard Sign | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Hard Sign | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Hard Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Hard Sign | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Hard Sign | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Upper | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Hard Sign | |
| None | |
| Ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Hard Sign | |
| R |