U+044F "я" Cyrillic Small Letter Ya Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

я
Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+044F "я" Cyrillic Small Letter Ya is the thirty third and final letter of the Russian alphabet, and it represents the IPA sound /ja/ or the palatalized vowel /a/ after a soft consonant. Its shape resembles a mirrored Latin letter "R" but functions as a vowel in Cyrillic script, often used in the first person singular pronoun "я" meaning "I" in Russian. Historically, it derives from the Old Cyrillic letter "Ѧ" (small yus), and in digital contexts, it belongs to the Cyrillic block in Unicode, making it essential for typing, displaying, and processing modern Russian and various other Slavic languages.

General Properties

Code Point
U+044F
Name
Cyrillic Small Letter Ya
Unicode 1.0 Name
Cyrillic Small Letter Ia

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
я
HTML Hex Encoding
я
UTF-8 Encoding
0xD1 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding
0x044F
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000044F
C/C++/Java Escape
\u044f