LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA
- Category
- Ll — Lowercase Letter
- Block
- IPA Extensions
- Script
- Latin
- Plane
- Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
- Decimal
- 601
Encoding Table
This table shows the exact bytes used to represent LATIN SMALL 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 | C9 99 | 201 153 | 2 |
| UTF-16 LE | 59 02 | 89 2 | 2 |
| UTF-16 BE | 02 59 | 2 89 | 2 |
| UTF-32 LE | 59 02 00 00 | 89 2 0 0 | 4 |
| UTF-32 BE | 00 00 02 59 | 0 0 2 89 | 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
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View U+0259 on CharLookup.com ↗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.