U+0435 "е" Cyrillic Small Letter Ie Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

е

U+0435 "е" Cyrillic Small Letter Ie is the lowercase representation of the seventh letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, where it functions as a vowel pronounced similarly to the "ye" in the English word "yes." It is commonly used in languages such as Russian, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian, and it is distinct from the Latin letter "e" in both its visual form and its phonetic value, though it often appears identical in many common fonts, causing potential confusion in digital text processing. This character plays a key role in the orthography of numerous Slavic and non Slavic languages that utilize the Cyrillic script, maintaining a consistent sound across different linguistic contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+0435
Version Added 1.1
Name Cyrillic Small Letter Ie
Block Cyrillic
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding е
HTML Hex Encoding е
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD0 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0435
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000435
C/C++/Java Escape \u0435

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
Lowercase Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point "Е" U+0415 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ie
Simple Titlecase Code Point "Е" U+0415 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ie
Uppercase Code Point "Е" U+0415 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ie
Titlecase Code Point "Е" U+0415 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ie
Cased Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Titlecased Yes
Changes When Uppercased Yes
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 Lower