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

Unicode Version 18.0

э
Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

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
Name
Cyrillic Small Letter E
Unicode 1.0 Name
Cyrillic Small Letter Reversed E

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