Step 1: Determine the UTF-8 encoding bit layout
The character շ has the Unicode code point U+0577. In UTF-8, it is encoded using 2 bytes because its codepoint is in the range of
0x0080to0x07ff.
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 thexare the payload bits.UTF-8 Encoding bit layout by codepoint range Codepoint Range Bytes Bit pattern Payload length U+0000 - U+007F 1 0xxxxxxx 7 bits U+0080 - U+07FF 2 110xxxxx 10xxxxxx 11 bits U+0800 - U+FFFF 3 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 16 bits U+10000 - U+10FFFF 4 11110xxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 21 bits Step 2: Obtain the payload bits:
Convert the hexadecimal code point U+0577 to binary:
00000101 01110111. Those are the payload bits.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:
11010101 10110111
ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER SHA·U+0577
շ
Character Information
Code Point
U+0577
HEX
0577
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Lowercase Letter
Character Representations
Click elements to copy| Encoding | Hex | Binary |
|---|---|---|
| UTF8 | D5 B7 | 11010101 10110111 |
| UTF16 (big Endian) | 05 77 | 00000101 01110111 |
| UTF16 (little Endian) | 77 05 | 01110111 00000101 |
| UTF32 (big Endian) | 00 00 05 77 | 00000000 00000000 00000101 01110111 |
| UTF32 (little Endian) | 77 05 00 00 | 01110111 00000101 00000000 00000000 |
HTML Entity
շ
URI Encoded
%D5%B7
Description
The Unicode character U+0577, ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER SHA (ჽ), plays a significant role in the digital representation of the Armenian language, which is primarily spoken in Armenia and has an estimated 6 million speakers worldwide. This letter is part of the YI JING block within the Unicode Standard and forms the basis for the Armavir script, a historical writing system that predates the current Armenian alphabet created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century AD. ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER SHA represents the phoneme /ʃ/, which is a voiceless postalveolar fricative found in various languages, including English and Spanish. The character's usage contributes to the preservation of Armenian cultural identity and heritage in digital communication, as well as its integration into modern technologies such as text processing software and websites.
How to type the շ symbol on Windows
Hold Alt and type 1399 on the numpad. Or use Character Map.