CANADIAN SYLLABICS GLOTTAL STOP·U+141E

Character Information

Code Point
U+141E
HEX
141E
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Letter

Character Representations

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EncodingHexBinary
UTF8
E1 90 9E
11100001 10010000 10011110
UTF16 (big Endian)
14 1E
00010100 00011110
UTF16 (little Endian)
1E 14
00011110 00010100
UTF32 (big Endian)
00 00 14 1E
00000000 00000000 00010100 00011110
UTF32 (little Endian)
1E 14 00 00
00011110 00010100 00000000 00000000
HTML Entity
ᐞ
URI Encoded
%E1%90%9E

Description

The Unicode character U+141E, known as the Canadian Syllabics Glottal Stop, holds a significant position in digital texts, particularly within the realm of Indigenous languages of Canada. It is one of over 20,000 characters encoded in the Unicode Standard, which facilitates the accurate representation and exchange of text data across diverse platforms, programming languages, and devices. As its name suggests, the Canadian Syllabics Glottal Stop serves as a phonetic symbol, specifically indicating a glottal stop sound, an essential feature in the pronunciation of certain Canadian Indigenous languages such as Cree and Ojibwe. This character is integral to preserving linguistic heritage and facilitating communication within these communities, emphasizing its cultural and technical relevance in digital text representation.

How to type the symbol on Windows

Hold Alt and type 5150 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+141E. 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+141E to binary: 00010100 00011110. 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 10010000 10011110