U+042C CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SOFT SIGN

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Decimal / Nº
1068
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+042C, officially named CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SOFT SIGN, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Cyrillic block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Uppercase Letter, this character typically falls under the Cyrillic script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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1068 Copied!
UTF-8 D0 AC Copied!
UTF-16 04 2C Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 04 2C Copied!
URL-Quoted %D0%AC Copied!
HTML hex reference Ь Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'042C' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u042C Copied!
C and C++ \u042c Copied!
C# \u042c Copied!
CSS \00042C Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(1068) Copied!
Go \u042c Copied!
JavaScript \u042C Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{042c} Copied!
JSON \u042C Copied!
Java \u042C Copied!
Lua \u{042C} Copied!
Matlab char(1068) Copied!
Perl \x{042C} Copied!
PHP \u{042c} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\042C' Copied!
PowerShell `u{042C} Copied!
Python \u042c Copied!
Ruby \u{042c} Copied!
Rust \u{042c} Copied!