ꙥ is the Unicode character CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT EL, code point U+A665 (decimal 42597) in the Cyrillic Extended-B block, added in Unicode 5.1. In HTML write ꙥ, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes EA 99 A5.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+A665 |
| Decimal | 42597 |
| UTF-8 bytes | EA 99 A5 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | A665 |
| UTF-32 | 0000A665 |
| HTML decimal | ꙥ |
| HTML hex | ꙥ |
| CSS | \A665 |
| JavaScript | \uA665 |
| JSON | \uA665 |
| Python | \uA665 |
| Python by name | \N{CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT EL} |
| Java, C# | \uA665 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{A665} |
| Go, C, C++ | \uA665 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %EA%99%A5 |
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 SOFT EL |
| Code point | U+A665 (decimal 42597) |
| Block | Cyrillic Extended-B (U+A640–U+A69F) |
| General category | Ll: Lowercase letter |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 5.1 |
Upper and lower case
- Ꙥ U+A664 Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft El — Uppercase
Nearby in Cyrillic Extended-B
- ꙝ U+A65D Cyrillic Small Letter Iotified Closed Little Yus
- Ꙟ U+A65E Cyrillic Capital Letter Yn
- ꙟ U+A65F Cyrillic Small Letter Yn
- Ꙡ U+A660 Cyrillic Capital Letter Reversed Tse
- ꙡ U+A661 Cyrillic Small Letter Reversed Tse
- Ꙣ U+A662 Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft De
- ꙣ U+A663 Cyrillic Small Letter Soft De
- Ꙥ U+A664 Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft El
- Ꙧ U+A666 Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft Em
- ꙧ U+A667 Cyrillic Small Letter Soft Em
- Ꙩ U+A668 Cyrillic Capital Letter Monocular O
- ꙩ U+A669 Cyrillic Small Letter Monocular O
- Ꙫ U+A66A Cyrillic Capital Letter Binocular O
- ꙫ U+A66B Cyrillic Small Letter Binocular O
- Ꙭ U+A66C Cyrillic Capital Letter Double Monocular O
- ꙭ U+A66D Cyrillic Small Letter Double Monocular O
All 96 characters: Cyrillic Extended-B.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ꙥ?
- Use ꙥ (decimal) or ꙥ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+A665?
- EA 99 A5 (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %EA%99%A5.
- How do I write U+A665 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \uA665. Python: \uA665.
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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