GLAGOLITIC CAPITAL LETTER HERU·U+2C18

Character Information

Code Point
U+2C18
HEX
2C18
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Uppercase Letter

Character Representations

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EncodingHexBinary
UTF8
E2 B0 98
11100010 10110000 10011000
UTF16 (big Endian)
2C 18
00101100 00011000
UTF16 (little Endian)
18 2C
00011000 00101100
UTF32 (big Endian)
00 00 2C 18
00000000 00000000 00101100 00011000
UTF32 (little Endian)
18 2C 00 00
00011000 00101100 00000000 00000000
HTML Entity
Ⱈ
URI Encoded
%E2%B0%98

Description

The Unicode character U+2C18 represents the Glagolitic Capital Letter Heru (Г), a letter from the Glagolitic script. Developed in the 9th century by the Slavic monk Saint Cyril, Glagolitica is one of the oldest writing systems for the Slavic languages. U+2C18 is predominantly used in digital texts to represent the Glagolitic letter Heru when transcribing Old Church Slavonic or other Slavic languages that utilize this script. While its usage has diminished in modern times due to the widespread adoption of the Cyrillic script, Glagolitic script holds great cultural significance as a vital part of the history and heritage of Slavic nations. The character U+2C18 is crucial for accurately representing and preserving historical texts, liturgical works, and linguistic research involving Slavic languages that were once written in Glagolitic.

How to type the symbol on Windows

Hold Alt and type 11288 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+2C18. 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+2C18 to binary: 00101100 00011000. 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:
    11100010 10110000 10011000