How many letters are in the Russian alphabet?

The modern Russian alphabet has 33 letters: 10 vowels, 21 consonants, and two signs (ъ hard sign and ь soft sign) that carry no sound of their own but modify pronunciation.

What are the Unicode code points for Cyrillic?

Russian letters live mainly in the Cyrillic block from U+0410 (А) to U+044F (я), with Ё at U+0401 and ё at U+0451 sitting just outside the main run. Each row in the table shows the exact code point.

Why do the soft and hard signs have no phoneme?

The soft sign (ь) palatalises the preceding consonant and the hard sign (ъ) blocks palatalisation before a following vowel. Neither represents a sound on its own, which is why their IPA column notes a modifying role rather than a phoneme.

Is the transliteration a single standard?

The romanisations shown are a practical, widely used scheme close to BGN/PCGN. Different standards (ISO 9, GOST, scientific) differ on a few letters such as х, ж and щ, so check which system a given document requires.

Why does е have two transliterations?

The letter е is pronounced with a leading y-glide at the start of a word or after a vowel (yes-like), but as a plain e after consonants. The table reflects both, which is why you see ye and e listed for it.

Russian Cyrillic Reference

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This reference lists every letter of the modern Russian Cyrillic alphabet alongside the three facts you most often need: the Unicode code point, a practical romanisation, and an approximate IPA phoneme. Filter the table to find any letter instantly.

How it works

The Russian alphabet is shown in its standard dictionary order А–Я. For each letter the table reports:

Unicode — the code point for both the uppercase and lowercase forms, e.g. А is U+0410 and я is U+044F. Note that Ё/ё sit at U+0401/U+0451, outside the main contiguous run.
Transliteration — a practical Latin rendering close to BGN/PCGN.
IPA — an approximate phoneme; the two signs ъ and ь carry no sound.

The filter matches against the letter itself, its name, or its romanisation, so searching zh finds ж and searching shcha finds щ.

Notes

The alphabet breaks down into 10 vowels (а, е, ё, и, о, у, ы, э, ю, я), 21 consonants, and 2 signs (ъ, ь). Romanisation standards disagree on a handful of letters — ISO 9 uses diacritics (ž, š, ŝ) for reversibility while passport and news styles use digraphs (zh, sh, shch). Pick the system your context requires and use this chart as a quick lookup.