Step 1: Determine the UTF-8 encoding bit layout
The character ൏ has the Unicode code point U+0D4F. 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+0D4F to binary:
00001101 01001111. 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:
11100000 10110101 10001111
MALAYALAM SIGN PARA·U+0D4F
൏
Character Information
Code Point
U+0D4F
HEX
0D4F
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Symbol
Character Representations
Click elements to copy| Encoding | Hex | Binary |
|---|---|---|
| UTF8 | E0 B5 8F | 11100000 10110101 10001111 |
| UTF16 (big Endian) | 0D 4F | 00001101 01001111 |
| UTF16 (little Endian) | 4F 0D | 01001111 00001101 |
| UTF32 (big Endian) | 00 00 0D 4F | 00000000 00000000 00001101 01001111 |
| UTF32 (little Endian) | 4F 0D 00 00 | 01001111 00001101 00000000 00000000 |
HTML Entity
൏
URI Encoded
%E0%B5%8F
Description
The Unicode character U+0D4F, known as MALAYALAM SIGN PARA, plays a crucial role in the Malayalam script, which is predominantly used in the Indian state of Kerala for writing the Malayalam language. This specific glyph represents an interpunct, a punctuation mark similar to a vertical colon (:) or semicolon (;), and is used in digital text to separate words when using a word processor with automatic hyphenation enabled. The MALAYALAM SIGN PARA helps maintain the balance and readability of text passages written in the Malayalam script, which has a unique structure and set of rules compared to the Latin alphabet.
How to type the ൏ symbol on Windows
Hold Alt and type 3407 on the numpad. Or use Character Map.