U+042D "Э" Cyrillic Capital Letter E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Э
U+042D "Э" Cyrillic Capital Letter E is a distinct letter in the Cyrillic script, representing the vowel sound /ɛ/ similar to the "e" in "met" in English. It is the 31st letter of the Russian alphabet and appears in many other Cyrillic-based alphabets, including Belarusian, Mongolian, and Uzbek. Unlike the Cyrillic letter "Е" which often represents the sound /je/ or /ʲe/ after a palatalized consonant, "Э" consistently denotes a non-iotated, hard vowel sound, typically found in loanwords and native words that require a clear, unyodized pronunciation. Its shape resembles a reversed Latin capital "E", and it plays a crucial role in distinguishing meaning in words such as "это" meaning "this" versus "ето" which would be a common misspelling.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+042D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter E |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Reversed E |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Э |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Э |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD0 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x042D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000042D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u042d |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "э" U+044D Cyrillic Small Letter E |
| Lowercase Code Point | "э" U+044D Cyrillic Small Letter E |
| Simple Case Folding | "э" U+044D Cyrillic Small Letter E |
| Case Folding | "э" U+044D Cyrillic Small Letter E |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "э" U+044D Cyrillic Small Letter E |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "э" U+044D Cyrillic Small Letter E |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |