U+042C Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft Sign
U+042C 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 Soft 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+042C 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 soft sign (Ь, ь, italics Ь, ь) also known as the front yer, front jer, or er malak (lit. "small er") is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Old Church Slavonic, it represented a short (or "reduced") front vowel. As with its companion, the back yer ⟨ъ⟩, the vowel phoneme that it designated was later partly dropped and partly merged with other vowels.
In the modern Slavic Cyrillic writing systems in which it appears (all East Slavic languages and Bulgarian and Church Slavic), it does not represent an individual sound but indicates palatalization of the preceding consonant.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 1068 |
| UTF-8 | D0 AC |
| UTF-16 | 04 2C |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 04 2C |
| URL-Quoted | %D0%AC |
| HTML-Escape | Ь |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ь |
| HTML-Escape | Ь |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | AC BE |
| Encoding: IBM866 (hex bytes) | 9C |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-5 (hex bytes) | CC |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A7 BE |
| Encoding: KOI8-R (hex bytes) | F8 |
| Encoding: KOI8-U (hex bytes) | F8 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | DC |
| Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | 9C |
| LATEX | \cyrchar\CYRSFTSN |
| Adobe Glyph List | Softsigncyrillic |
| Adobe Glyph List | afii10046 |
| digraph | %" |
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SOFT SIGN | |
| — | |
| Cyrillic | |
| Uppercase Letter | |
| Cyrillic | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign | |
| ✔ | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft Sign | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft Sign | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft Sign | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft Sign | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft Sign | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Upper | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft Sign | |
| None | |
| Ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign | |
| R |