COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED W BELOW·U+1AC0

Character Information

Code Point
U+1AC0
HEX
1AC0
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Nonspacing Mark

Character Representations

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EncodingHexBinary
UTF8
E1 AB 80
11100001 10101011 10000000
UTF16 (big Endian)
1A C0
00011010 11000000
UTF16 (little Endian)
C0 1A
11000000 00011010
UTF32 (big Endian)
00 00 1A C0
00000000 00000000 00011010 11000000
UTF32 (little Endian)
C0 1A 00 00
11000000 00011010 00000000 00000000
HTML Entity
ᫀ
URI Encoded
%E1%AB%80

Description

U+1AC0 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED W BELOW is a special character in the Unicode standard, specifically designed for use in digital text. This typographical element is employed to modify a preceding lowercase letter by adding a visually striking accent or diacritic. The primary role of this particular symbol is to turn the following alphabetical character into an upside-down 'W'. However, it's important to note that the COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED W BELOW does not possess a unique Unicode code point; instead, it can be combined with other characters by utilizing the standard Unicode mechanism for combining diacritics. This allows for greater flexibility and adaptability within digital typography. Although this specific character doesn't have a significant cultural or linguistic context, it serves as an example of how Unicode's design enables the creation of diverse, expressive textual content across multiple languages and scripts.

How to type the symbol on Windows

Hold Alt and type 6848 on the numpad. Or use Character Map.

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

    The character has the Unicode code point U+1AC0. In UTF-8, it is encoded using 3 bytes because its codepoint is in the range of 0x0800 to 0xffff.

    Therefore we know that the UTF-8 encoding will be done over 16 bits within the final 24 bits and that it will have the format: 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx 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+1AC0 to binary: 00011010 11000000. 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:
    11100001 10101011 10000000