# ъ U+044A CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HARD SIGN

Lowercase Cyrillic hard sign, a silent letter shaped like a b with a flag on top, used in Russian as a separator and in Bulgarian as a vowel.

| | |
|---|---|
| Character | `ъ` |
| Codepoint | U+044A |
| Name | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HARD SIGN |
| Block | [Cyrillic](https://unicodekit.com/block/cyrillic) |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Category | Lowercase Letter (Ll) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `ъ` `ъ` |
| CSS | `\44A` |
| JavaScript | `\u044A` |
| UTF-8 | D1 8A |
| UTF-16 | 044A |

## Related characters

- щ [U+0449 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHCHA](https://unicodekit.com/char/0449)
- ы [U+044B CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YERU](https://unicodekit.com/char/044B)
- ш [U+0448 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHA](https://unicodekit.com/char/0448)
- ь [U+044C CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/044C)
- ч [U+0447 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER CHE](https://unicodekit.com/char/0447)
- э [U+044D CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER E](https://unicodekit.com/char/044D)
- ц [U+0446 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TSE](https://unicodekit.com/char/0446)
- ю [U+044E CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YU](https://unicodekit.com/char/044E)
- х [U+0445 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HA](https://unicodekit.com/char/0445)
- я [U+044F CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YA](https://unicodekit.com/char/044F)
- ф [U+0444 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EF](https://unicodekit.com/char/0444)
- ѐ [U+0450 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IE WITH GRAVE](https://unicodekit.com/char/0450)

Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/044A · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/044A