TIFINAGH LETTER YA·U+2D30

Character Information

Code Point
U+2D30
HEX
2D30
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Letter

Character Representations

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EncodingHexBinary
UTF8
E2 B4 B0
11100010 10110100 10110000
UTF16 (big Endian)
2D 30
00101101 00110000
UTF16 (little Endian)
30 2D
00110000 00101101
UTF32 (big Endian)
00 00 2D 30
00000000 00000000 00101101 00110000
UTF32 (little Endian)
30 2D 00 00
00110000 00101101 00000000 00000000
HTML Entity
ⴰ
URI Encoded
%E2%B4%B0

Description

The TIFINAGH LETTER YA (U+2D30) is a character from the Tifinagh script, an ancient Berber alphabet used predominantly in North Africa, specifically among the Tuareg, Tamazight, and other Berber communities. Tifinagh has been adapted over time to write multiple languages such as Tamazight, Kabyle, and Tarifit, making it a vital aspect of Berber cultural heritage. U+2D30 or "TIFINAGH LETTER YA" is a key part of this script, representing the phoneme /ja/ or a palatal approximant [j] in these languages. In digital text, this character provides accuracy and cultural context for works written in Tifinagh, preserving its historical and linguistic significance in the modern era.

How to type the symbol on Windows

Hold Alt and type 11568 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+2D30. 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+2D30 to binary: 00101101 00110000. 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:
    11100010 10110100 10110000