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U+018F

LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCHWA

Lu — Uppercase Letter
Latin
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
399

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCHWA in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 C6 8F 198 143 2
UTF-16 LE 8F 01 143 1 2
UTF-16 BE 01 8F 1 143 2
UTF-32 LE 8F 01 00 00 143 1 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 01 8F 0 0 1 143 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) not supported
Windows-1252 not supported
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS not supported
EUC-JP not supported
GBK not supported
Big5 not supported

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

none
Ə
Ə
\18F
\u018F
%C6%8F
\u018f
399

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 2 bytes. The leading 110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 2-byte sequence. Bytes 2+ begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0
C6
·
Byte 2
1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
8F
UTF-8: C6 8F · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+018F

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right
Lowercase: U+0259 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA

Nearby Characters in Latin Extended-B