U+044D "э" Cyrillic Small Letter E Unicode Character

U+044D "э" Cyrillic Small Letter E is a vowel letter used in several Cyrillic-based alphabets, including Russian, Belarusian, and Mongolian. It represents the sound /e/ as in the English word "end" and is distinct from the letter "е" (U+0435), which often denotes a palatalizing or iotated vowel. In Russian, it appears in native and loan words, but its usage is less frequent than that of "е" and it never occurs at the beginning of a word. Visually, it resembles a reversed Latin capital "E" and is written in cursive with a similar form.

General Properties

Code Point	U+044D
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter E
Unicode 1.0 Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Reversed E
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	э
HTML Hex Encoding	э
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD1 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x044D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000044D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u044d

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	"Э" U+042D Cyrillic Capital Letter E
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Э" U+042D Cyrillic Capital Letter E
Uppercase Code Point	"Э" U+042D Cyrillic Capital Letter E
Titlecase Code Point	"Э" U+042D Cyrillic Capital Letter E
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