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Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign HTML entity ь
ь is the HTML entity for Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign ь (U+044C). Copy ь, ь and the CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
ь- Code point
- U+044C
- Unicode name
- CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN
- Block
- Cyrillic
- Category
- Lowercase letter (Ll)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | ьWorks in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | ьWorks in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | ьWorks in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\44C";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u044C"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u044c"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %D1%8CPercent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | D1 8C2 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 044C1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
ь writes U+044C (Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Sign), a small letter from the Unicode Cyrillic block, encoded since Unicode 1.1. For Cyrillic text, type the letters directly on a UTF-8 page; named references for every letter make long text unreadable in source.
The name comes from the HTML5 list (much of it shared with MathML), so it works in every current browser but not in XML or XHTML served as XML, where the numeric reference is the safe choice.
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).