CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ER·U+0440

р

Character Information

Code Point
U+0440
HEX
0440
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Lowercase Letter

Character Representations

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EncodingHexBinary
UTF8
D1 80
11010001 10000000
UTF16 (big Endian)
04 40
00000100 01000000
UTF16 (little Endian)
40 04
01000000 00000100
UTF32 (big Endian)
00 00 04 40
00000000 00000000 00000100 01000000
UTF32 (little Endian)
40 04 00 00
01000000 00000100 00000000 00000000
HTML Entity
р
URI Encoded
%D1%80

Description

The Unicode character U+0440 represents the Cyrillic small letter Er (Э). In digital texts, this character is primarily used in Russian and other Slavic languages that employ the Cyrillic script. It plays a significant role in these languages as it is a fundamental building block of words and phrases. The Cyrillic script is named after its creator, Saint Cyril, also known as Constantine Cyriacus, who developed it from the Greek alphabet in the 9th century AD. This script has been widely adopted across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where it serves as a medium for various languages, such as Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Belarusian, and others. The Cyrillic script has played an essential role in shaping the cultural and linguistic identity of these regions over centuries.

How to type the р symbol on Windows

Hold Alt and type 1088 on the numpad. Or use Character Map.

  1. Step 1: Determine the UTF-8 encoding bit layout

    The character р has the Unicode code point U+0440. In UTF-8, it is encoded using 2 bytes because its codepoint is in the range of 0x0080 to 0x07ff.

    Therefore we know that the UTF-8 encoding will be done over 11 bits within the final 16 bits and that it will have the format: 110xxxxx 10xxxxxx
    Where the x are the payload bits.

    UTF-8 Encoding bit layout by codepoint range
    Codepoint RangeBytesBit patternPayload length
    U+0000 - U+007F10xxxxxxx7 bits
    U+0080 - U+07FF2110xxxxx 10xxxxxx11 bits
    U+0800 - U+FFFF31110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx16 bits
    U+10000 - U+10FFFF411110xxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx21 bits
  2. Step 2: Obtain the payload bits:

    Convert the hexadecimal code point U+0440 to binary: 00000100 01000000. Those are the payload bits.

  3. Step 3: Fill in the bits to match the bit pattern:

    Obtain the final bytes by arranging the paylod bits to match the bit layout:
    11010001 10000000