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Glyph for U+044C
Source: Noto Sans

U+044C Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign

U+044C was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0400 to U+04FF Cyrillic in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Cyrillic script. It is related to its uppercase variant Glyph for U+042C Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft Sign and its titlecase variant Glyph for U+042C Cyrillic Capital 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+044C behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Lower 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) is a letter in the Cyrillic script that is used in various Slavic languages. In Old Church Slavonic, it represented a short or reduced front vowel. However, over time, the specific vowel sound it denoted was largely eliminated and merged with other vowel sounds.

In most contemporary Slavic Cyrillic writing systems, such as those used in East Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian) and Church Slavic, the soft sign does not represent a distinct sound on its own. Instead, it serves as an indicator of palatalization of the preceding consonant. In the Bulgarian language, it is only used for the sound /j/ in the combination ьо (/jo/) after consonant letters.

Palatalization is a linguistic process in which the middle of the tongue moves closer to the hard palate while pronouncing a consonant. It affects the pronunciation of the preceding consonant by giving it a palatal quality or causing it to become a palatal consonant. The soft sign acts as a visual marker to show that the consonant before it is palatalized.

For example, in Russian, the soft sign is often used after consonants to indicate palatalization. It affects the pronunciation of the preceding consonant and can change the sound of words. The specific effect varies depending on the consonant it follows. In other Slavic languages where the soft sign is used, a similar palatalization function is observed.

It may also be used as a superscript. (ь)

Representations

System Representation
1100
UTF-8 D1 8C
UTF-16 04 4C
UTF-32 00 00 04 4C
URL-Quoted %D1%8C
HTML hex reference ь
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ь
HTML named entity ь
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
LATEX \cyrchar\cyrsftsn
Adobe Glyph List afii10094
Adobe Glyph List softsigncyrillic
digraph %'

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Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN
Unicode 1 Name
Block Cyrillic
General Category Lowercase Letter
Script Cyrillic
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+044C Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+044C Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+044C Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+042C Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft Sign
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+042C Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft Sign
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+042C Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft Sign
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+042C Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft Sign
Case Folding Glyph for U+044C Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+044C Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+044C Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+044C Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Lower
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+044C Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+044C Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R