LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH MIDDLE TILDE·U+1D74

Character Information

Code Point
U+1D74
HEX
1D74
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Lowercase Letter

Character Representations

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EncodingHexBinary
UTF8
E1 B5 B4
11100001 10110101 10110100
UTF16 (big Endian)
1D 74
00011101 01110100
UTF16 (little Endian)
74 1D
01110100 00011101
UTF32 (big Endian)
00 00 1D 74
00000000 00000000 00011101 01110100
UTF32 (little Endian)
74 1D 00 00
01110100 00011101 00000000 00000000
HTML Entity
ᵴ
URI Encoded
%E1%B5%B4

Description

U+1D74, the Latin Small Letter S with Middle Tilde (𝛄), is a specialized character within the Unicode Standard that holds a unique role in digital typography. This typographic glyph deviates from the standard "s" letterform, featuring a vertical line through its middle, which distinguishes it from other lowercase 's' characters. The Latin Small Letter S with Middle Tilde is typically employed to represent the voiceless postalveolar fricative sound in certain languages, primarily in phonetic transcriptions or linguistic research. Its use is particularly prevalent in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), where it signifies the specific pronunciation of certain words and syllables. As a result, U+1D74 plays a vital role in facilitating accurate communication of language sounds across different cultures and languages through digital text.

How to type the symbol on Windows

Hold Alt and type 7540 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+1D74. 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+1D74 to binary: 00011101 01110100. 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 10110101 10110100