OL CHIKI LETTER UNN·U+1C6C

Character Information

Code Point
U+1C6C
HEX
1C6C
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Letter

Character Representations

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EncodingHexBinary
UTF8
E1 B1 AC
11100001 10110001 10101100
UTF16 (big Endian)
1C 6C
00011100 01101100
UTF16 (little Endian)
6C 1C
01101100 00011100
UTF32 (big Endian)
00 00 1C 6C
00000000 00000000 00011100 01101100
UTF32 (little Endian)
6C 1C 00 00
01101100 00011100 00000000 00000000
HTML Entity
ᱬ
URI Encoded
%E1%B1%AC

Description

U+1C6C, also known as the OL CHIKI LETTER UNN, is a character predominantly utilized within the Ol Chiki script. The Ol Chiki script is an abugida, or alphasyllabic writing system, developed by Pandurang Sadashiv Wagle for the Scheduled Tribes of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India. U+1C6C is a consonant-vowel letter combination, where the consonant "U+1C6A" and the vowel "U+1C83" are combined to form a single phonetic unit. In digital text, this character serves as a fundamental element in transcribing and preserving the indigenous languages of the Andaman Islands, thereby playing an essential role in cultural preservation and linguistic diversity. The Ol Chiki script is written from left-to-right, and each consonant has an associated set of vowel characters that can be attached above or below it to form syllables. U+1C6C, like other characters in the Ol Chiki script, is crucial for accurate representation of spoken language in written form, aiding in communication among tribal communities and bridging cultural gaps.

How to type the symbol on Windows

Hold Alt and type 7276 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+1C6C. 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+1C6C to binary: 00011100 01101100. 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:
    11100001 10110001 10101100