TELUGU LETTER A·U+0C05

Character Information

Code Point
U+0C05
HEX
0C05
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Letter

Character Representations

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EncodingHexBinary
UTF8
E0 B0 85
11100000 10110000 10000101
UTF16 (big Endian)
0C 05
00001100 00000101
UTF16 (little Endian)
05 0C
00000101 00001100
UTF32 (big Endian)
00 00 0C 05
00000000 00000000 00001100 00000101
UTF32 (little Endian)
05 0C 00 00
00000101 00001100 00000000 00000000
HTML Entity
అ
URI Encoded
%E0%B0%85

Description

The Unicode character U+0C05, known as "Telugu Letter A," holds a significant position within the Telugu language's script system. In digital text communication, it serves its primary purpose of representing the initial consonant sound 'ka' or 'Ka' in the Telugu script. This particular character is part of the Telugu Script block, which encompasses all the characters needed to represent the Telugu language, spoken by millions of people predominantly residing in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states of India. Given its cultural importance, U+0C05 contributes to preserving and promoting the linguistic heritage of these regions while enabling seamless digital communication for speakers of the Telugu language worldwide.

How to type the symbol on Windows

Hold Alt and type 3077 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+0C05. 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+0C05 to binary: 00001100 00000101. 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:
    11100000 10110000 10000101