ў is the Unicode character CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT U, code point U+045E (decimal 1118) in the Cyrillic block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ў, and in UTF-8 it is the 2 bytes D1 9E.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+045E |
| Decimal | 1118 |
| UTF-8 bytes | D1 9E |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 045E |
| UTF-32 | 0000045E |
| HTML decimal | ў |
| HTML hex | ў |
| HTML named | ў |
| CSS | \45E |
| JavaScript | \u045E |
| JSON | \u045E |
| Python | \u045E |
| Python by name | \N{CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT U} |
| Java, C# | \u045E |
| Rust, Swift | \u{45E} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u045E |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %D1%9E |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT U |
| Code point | U+045E (decimal 1118) |
| Block | Cyrillic (U+0400–U+04FF) |
| General category | Ll: Lowercase letter |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Decomposition
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT U is canonically equivalent to the sequence below. Normalising text to NFD splits it into these parts; NFC joins them back into U+045E. Search and comparison should normalise first, or the two spellings will not match.
Upper and lower case
- Ў U+040E Cyrillic Capital Letter Short U — Uppercase
Nearby in Cyrillic
- і U+0456 Cyrillic Small Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I
- ї U+0457 Cyrillic Small Letter Yi
- ј U+0458 Cyrillic Small Letter Je
- љ U+0459 Cyrillic Small Letter Lje
- њ U+045A Cyrillic Small Letter Nje
- ћ U+045B Cyrillic Small Letter Tshe
- ќ U+045C Cyrillic Small Letter Kje
- ѝ U+045D Cyrillic Small Letter I With Grave
- џ U+045F Cyrillic Small Letter Dzhe
- Ѡ U+0460 Cyrillic Capital Letter Omega
- ѡ U+0461 Cyrillic Small Letter Omega
- Ѣ U+0462 Cyrillic Capital Letter Yat
- ѣ U+0463 Cyrillic Small Letter Yat
- Ѥ U+0464 Cyrillic Capital Letter Iotified E
- ѥ U+0465 Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified E
- Ѧ U+0466 Cyrillic Capital Letter Little Yus
All 256 characters: Cyrillic.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ў?
- Use the named entity ў, or ў (decimal) or ў (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+045E?
- D1 9E (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %D1%9E.
- How do I write U+045E in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u045E. Python: \u045E.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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