ә is the Unicode character CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SCHWA, code point U+04D9 (decimal 1241) in the Cyrillic block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ә, and in UTF-8 it is the 2 bytes D3 99.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+04D9 |
| Decimal | 1241 |
| UTF-8 bytes | D3 99 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 04D9 |
| UTF-32 | 000004D9 |
| HTML decimal | ә |
| HTML hex | ә |
| CSS | \4D9 |
| JavaScript | \u04D9 |
| JSON | \u04D9 |
| Python | \u04D9 |
| Python by name | \N{CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SCHWA} |
| Java, C# | \u04D9 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{4D9} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u04D9 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %D3%99 |
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 SCHWA |
| Code point | U+04D9 (decimal 1241) |
| 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 |
Upper and lower case
- Ә U+04D8 Cyrillic Capital Letter Schwa — Uppercase
Nearby in Cyrillic
- ӑ U+04D1 Cyrillic Small Letter A With Breve
- Ӓ U+04D2 Cyrillic Capital Letter A With Diaeresis
- ӓ U+04D3 Cyrillic Small Letter A With Diaeresis
- Ӕ U+04D4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature A Ie
- ӕ U+04D5 Cyrillic Small Ligature A Ie
- Ӗ U+04D6 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ie With Breve
- ӗ U+04D7 Cyrillic Small Letter Ie With Breve
- Ә U+04D8 Cyrillic Capital Letter Schwa
- Ӛ U+04DA Cyrillic Capital Letter Schwa With Diaeresis
- ӛ U+04DB Cyrillic Small Letter Schwa With Diaeresis
- Ӝ U+04DC Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe With Diaeresis
- ӝ U+04DD Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe With Diaeresis
- Ӟ U+04DE Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze With Diaeresis
- ӟ U+04DF Cyrillic Small Letter Ze With Diaeresis
- Ӡ U+04E0 Cyrillic Capital Letter Abkhasian Dze
- ӡ U+04E1 Cyrillic Small Letter Abkhasian Dze
All 256 characters: Cyrillic.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ә?
- Use ә (decimal) or ә (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+04D9?
- D3 99 (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %D3%99.
- How do I write U+04D9 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u04D9. Python: \u04D9.
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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