Step 1: Determine the UTF-8 encoding bit layout
The character ⶰ has the Unicode code point U+2DB0. In UTF-8, it is encoded using 3 bytes because its codepoint is in the range of
0x0800to0xffff.
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 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+2DB0 to binary:
00101101 10110000. 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:
11100010 10110110 10110000
ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE ZZA·U+2DB0
ⶰ
Character Information
Code Point
U+2DB0
HEX
2DB0
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Letter
Character Representations
Click elements to copy| Encoding | Hex | Binary |
|---|---|---|
| UTF8 | E2 B6 B0 | 11100010 10110110 10110000 |
| UTF16 (big Endian) | 2D B0 | 00101101 10110000 |
| UTF16 (little Endian) | B0 2D | 10110000 00101101 |
| UTF32 (big Endian) | 00 00 2D B0 | 00000000 00000000 00101101 10110000 |
| UTF32 (little Endian) | B0 2D 00 00 | 10110000 00101101 00000000 00000000 |
HTML Entity
ⶰ
URI Encoded
%E2%B6%B0
Description
The character U+2DB0, also known as ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE ZZA, plays a significant role in Ethiopic script, which is used for writing the Amharic language. In digital text, this character serves as a building block of words in the Ethiopic alphabet system. Unlike most Western scripts that use individual letters to represent sounds or meanings, Ethiopic script relies on syllabic characters to represent consonant-vowel combinations. U+2DB0 represents the syllable combination "Zza," where "Z" is a voiced alveolar stop and "a" is a low central unrounded vowel. This syllable has a distinct phonetic value in Amharic, a Semitic language spoken by over 23 million people in Ethiopia and Eritrea. It's worth noting that the Ethiopic script also includes a wide range of punctuation marks and special characters, providing rich typographic diversity for Ethiopian digital text.
How to type the ⶰ symbol on Windows
Hold Alt and type 11696 on the numpad. Or use Character Map.