Step 1: Determine the UTF-8 encoding bit layout
The character ҵ has the Unicode code point U+04B5. 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+04B5 to binary:
00000100 10110101. 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:
11010010 10110101
CYRILLIC SMALL LIGATURE TE TSE·U+04B5
ҵ
Character Information
Code Point
U+04B5
HEX
04B5
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Lowercase Letter
Character Representations
Click elements to copy| Encoding | Hex | Binary |
|---|---|---|
| UTF8 | D2 B5 | 11010010 10110101 |
| UTF16 (big Endian) | 04 B5 | 00000100 10110101 |
| UTF16 (little Endian) | B5 04 | 10110101 00000100 |
| UTF32 (big Endian) | 00 00 04 B5 | 00000000 00000000 00000100 10110101 |
| UTF32 (little Endian) | B5 04 00 00 | 10110101 00000100 00000000 00000000 |
HTML Entity
ҵ
URI Encoded
%D2%B5
Description
U+04B5 is the Unicode code point for Cyrillic Small Ligature TE TSE, a character predominantly used in digital texts of the Russian language. In typography, ligatures are glyphs formed by joining two or more individual letters in a single symbol to improve readability or aesthetic appeal. The Cyrillic Small Ligature TE TSE is a combination of three separate characters: "TE", "T", and "E". This ligature was introduced in the Unicode 5.1 standard in April 2008, with the aim of representing the typical pronunciation of the sequence "TE TSE" in Russian. In linguistic context, it represents a single syllable that sounds like 'dye' or 'tye', as used in words like "тесна" (tse-na) which means 'narrow'. It is particularly useful in digital texts where readability and visual coherence are paramount. However, it is important to note that the use of this ligature may be limited by software support and font availability.
How to type the ҵ symbol on Windows
Hold Alt and type 1205 on the numpad. Or use Character Map.