LATIN SMALL LETTER HALF H·U+2C76

Character Information

Code Point
U+2C76
HEX
2C76
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Lowercase Letter

Character Representations

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EncodingHexBinary
UTF8
E2 B1 B6
11100010 10110001 10110110
UTF16 (big Endian)
2C 76
00101100 01110110
UTF16 (little Endian)
76 2C
01110110 00101100
UTF32 (big Endian)
00 00 2C 76
00000000 00000000 00101100 01110110
UTF32 (little Endian)
76 2C 00 00
01110110 00101100 00000000 00000000
HTML Entity
ⱶ
URI Encoded
%E2%B1%B6

Description

The Unicode character U+2C76, also known as LATIN SMALL LETTER HALF H, is a unique typographic symbol used in digital text representation. It serves as a half-width counterpart of the capital letter 'H', primarily employed in Japanese and East Asian languages to enable efficient typing on devices with limited keyboards. Its role is crucial in these language systems, allowing for smoother and faster text input by representing a condensed form of the character 'H'. The LATIN SMALL LETTER HALF H has no specific cultural or linguistic context outside of its technical function, making it an essential element in digital communications within the aforementioned languages.

How to type the symbol on Windows

Hold Alt and type 11382 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+2C76. 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+2C76 to binary: 00101100 01110110. 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 10110001 10110110