U+044C CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN
U+044C was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block 
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Cyrillic script. It is related to its uppercase variant 
and its titlecase variant .
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 3 other glyphs. In text U+044C behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Lower for sentence and ALetter 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; Russian: мягкий знак Russian pronunciation: [ˈmʲæxʲkʲɪj znak]) also known as the front yer or front 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 it designated was later partly dropped and partly merged with other vowels. In the modern Slavic Cyrillic writing systems (all East Slavic plus Bulgarian and Church Slavic), it does not represent an individual sound, but rather indicates palatalization of the preceding consonant.
‹Ь› was also used in the Soviet Union in the Latinized Karelian alphabet made official in 1931 and used until re-Cyrillicization of Karelian in 1937.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 1100 |
| UTF-8 | D1 8C |
| UTF-16 | 04 4C |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 04 4C |
| URL-Quoted | %D1%8C |
| HTML-Escape | ь |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ñ |
| HTML-Escape | ь |
| digraph | % |
| LaTeX | \cyrchar\cyrsftsn |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | AC EE |
| Encoding: IBM866 (hex bytes) | EC |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-5 (hex bytes) | EC |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A7 EE |
| Encoding: KOI8-R (hex bytes) | D8 |
| Encoding: KOI8-U (hex bytes) | D8 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | FC |
| Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | FC |
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Age (age) | 1.1 |
| Unicode Name (na) | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN |
| Unicode 1 Name (na1) | — |
| Block (blk) | Cyrillic |
| General Category (gc) | Lowercase Letter |
| Script (sc) | Cyrillic |
| Bidirectional Category (bc) | Left To Right |
| Combining Class (ccc) | Not Reordered |
| Decomposition Type (dt) | None |
| Decomposition Mapping (dm) |
 |
| Lowercase (Lower) | ✔ |
| Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) |
|
| Lowercase Mapping (lc) |
|
| Uppercase (Upper) | ✘ |
| Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) |
|
| Uppercase Mapping (uc) |
|
| Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) |
|
| Titlecase Mapping (tc) |
|
| Case Folding (cf) |
|
| ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) | ✘ |
| Alphabetic (Alpha) | ✔ |
| Bidi Control (Bidi_C) | ✘ |
| Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) | ✘ |
| Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) |
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| Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) | None |
| Cased (Cased) | ✔ |
| Composition Exclusion (CE) | ✘ |
| Case Ignorable (CI) | ✘ |
| Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) | ✘ |
| Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) | ✘ |
| Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) | ✔ |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) | ✘ |
| Changes When Lowercased (CWL) | ✘ |
| Changes When Titlecased (CWT) | ✔ |
| Changes When Uppercased (CWU) | ✔ |
| Dash (Dash) | ✘ |
| Deprecated (Dep) | ✘ |
| Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) | ✘ |
| Diacritic (Dia) | ✘ |
| East Asian Width (ea) | Ambiguous |
| Extender (Ext) | ✘ |
| FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) |
|
| Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) | Any |
| Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) | ✔ |
| Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) | ✘ |
| Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) | ✘ |
| Hex Digit (Hex) | ✘ |
| Hangul Syllable Type (hst) | Not Applicable |
| Hyphen (Hyphen) | ✘ |
| ID Continue (IDC) | ✔ |
| Ideographic (Ideo) | ✘ |
| ID Start (IDS) | ✔ |
| IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) | ✘ |
| IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) | ✘ |
| InMC (InMC) | — |
| Indic Positional Category (InPC) | NA |
| Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) | Other |
| ISO 10646 Comment (isc) | — |
| Joining Group (jg) | No_Joining_Group |
| Join Control (Join_C) | ✘ |
| Jamo Short Name (JSN) | — |
| Joining Type (jt) | Non Joining |
| Line Break (lb) | Alphabetic |
| Logical Order Exception (LOE) | ✘ |
| Math (Math) | ✘ |
| Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) | ✘ |
| NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) |
|
| NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) | Yes |
| Numeric Type (nt) | None |
| Numeric Value (nv) | NaN |
| Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) | ✘ |
| Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) | ✘ |
| Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) | ✘ |
| Other ID Continue (OIDC) | ✘ |
| Other ID Start (OIDS) | ✘ |
| Other Lowercase (OLower) | ✘ |
| Other Math (OMath) | ✘ |
| Other Uppercase (OUpper) | ✘ |
| Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) | ✘ |
| Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) | ✘ |
| Quotation Mark (QMark) | ✘ |
| Radical (Radical) | ✘ |
| Sentence Break (SB) | Lower |
| Simple Case Folding (scf) |
|
| Script Extension (scx) | Cyrillic |
| Soft Dotted (SD) | ✘ |
| STerm (STerm) | ✘ |
| Terminal Punctuation (Term) | ✘ |
| Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) | ✘ |
| Variation Selector (VS) | ✘ |
| Word Break (WB) | ALetter |
| White Space (WSpace) | ✘ |
| XID Continue (XIDC) | ✔ |
| XID Start (XIDS) | ✔ |
| Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) | ✘ |
| Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) | ✘ |
| Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) | ✘ |
| Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) | ✘ |