U+042A Cyrillic Capital Letter Hard Sign
U+042A was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 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. Its lowercase variant is Cyrillic Small Letter Hard Sign.
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+042A forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The letter Ъ ъ (italics Ъ, ъ) of the Cyrillic script is known as er goläm (ер голям – "big er") in the Bulgarian alphabet, as the hard sign (Russian: твёрдый знак, romanized: tvördý znak, pronounced [ˈtvʲɵrdɨj ˈznak], Rusyn: твердый знак, romanized: tverdyj znak) in the modern Russian and Rusyn alphabets (although in Rusyn, ъ could also be known as ір), as the debelo jer (дебело їер, "fat er") in pre-reform Serbian orthography, and as ayirish belgisi in the Uzbek Cyrillic alphabet. The letter is called back yer or back jer and yor or jor in the pre-reform Russian orthography, in Old East Slavic, and in Old Church Slavonic.
Originally the yer denoted an ultra-short or reduced mid rounded vowel. It is one of two reduced vowels that are collectively known as the yers in Slavic philology.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 1066 |
| UTF-8 | D0 AA |
| UTF-16 | 04 2A |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 04 2A |
| URL-Quoted | %D0%AA |
| HTML hex reference | Ъ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ъ |
| HTML named entity | Ъ |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | AC BC |
| Encoding: IBM866 (hex bytes) | 9A |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-5 (hex bytes) | CA |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A7 BC |
| Encoding: KOI8-R (hex bytes) | FF |
| Encoding: KOI8-U (hex bytes) | FF |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | DA |
| Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | 9A |
| LATEX | \cyrchar\CYRHRDSN |
| Adobe Glyph List | Hardsigncyrillic |
| Adobe Glyph List | afii10044 |
| digraph | =" |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER HARD SIGN | |
| — | |
| Cyrillic | |
| Uppercase Letter | |
| Cyrillic | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Hard Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Hard Sign | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Hard Sign | |
| ✔ | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Hard Sign | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Hard Sign | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Hard Sign | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Hard Sign | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Hard Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Hard Sign | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Hard Sign | |
| Yes | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Hard Sign | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Upper | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Hard Sign | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Hard Sign | |
| R |