Step 1: Determine the UTF-8 encoding bit layout
The character has the Unicode code point U+0FF0. 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+0FF0 to binary:
00001111 11110000. 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 10111111 10110000
CHARACTER 0FF0·U+0FF0
Character Information
Code Point
U+0FF0
HEX
0FF0
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Character Representations
Click elements to copy| Encoding | Hex | Binary |
|---|---|---|
| UTF8 | E0 BF B0 | 11100000 10111111 10110000 |
| UTF16 (big Endian) | 0F F0 | 00001111 11110000 |
| UTF16 (little Endian) | F0 0F | 11110000 00001111 |
| UTF32 (big Endian) | 00 00 0F F0 | 00000000 00000000 00001111 11110000 |
| UTF32 (little Endian) | F0 0F 00 00 | 11110000 00001111 00000000 00000000 |
HTML Entity
࿰
URI Encoded
%E0%BF%B0
Description
U+0FF0 is a unique character in the Unicode standard, specifically designated as CHARACTER 0FF0. In digital text, this character does not have any typical usage or role. It remains largely unused and unutilized in most typographical applications. The code point value of U+0FF0 lies within the first plane of the Private Use Area, a range of Unicode codes reserved for private use characters that can be used by organizations, companies, or individuals to define their own unique set of characters. Therefore, U+0FF0 is generally considered as a character with no cultural, linguistic, or technical significance in the context of global communication and text processing. Its presence in text documents is usually an artifact of encoding issues or experimental use of private characters, rather than serving any specific purpose or fulfilling a certain requirement.
How to type the symbol on Windows
Hold Alt and type 4080 on the numpad. Or use Character Map.