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U+0431 CHARACTER

CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BE

Quick Facts

Unicode Name CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BE
Code Point U+0431
Decimal Value 1073
General Category Lowercase Letter (Ll) →
Unicode Block Cyrillic →
Script Cyrillic →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 2 bytes D0 B1
UTF-16 Code Unit 0431
UTF-32 4 bytes 00000431
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 04 31 LE: 31 04
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 04 31 LE: 31 04 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal б
HTML Hexadecimal б
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \000431
JavaScript (ES6) \u0431
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u0431
JSON Escape \u0431
Python \u0431
PHP "\u{431}"
Java "\u0431"
C / C++ "\u0431"
Rust '\u{431}'
URL Percent-Encoded %D0%B1

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0 — Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class L — Left-to-Right
Bidi Mirrored No

Case Mapping & Numeric Data

Uppercase Mapping Б U+0411 →

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+0431 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
б
Context: A б Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
б
Context: A б Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
б
Context: A б Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
б
Context: A б Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BE

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+0431

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