U+0845 "ࡅ" Mandaic Letter Ushenna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࡅ
U+0845 "ࡅ" Mandaic Letter Ushenna is used in the Mandaic alphabet to represent the sound of the letter "u" and is the twenty-first letter of the Mandaic script. This script is historically employed to write the Mandaic language, which is the liturgical language of the Mandaean religious community, primarily located in parts of Iraq and Iran. The letter Ushenna is integral to the unique abjad structure of Mandaic, which has been preserved in sacred texts, and its Unicode encoding helps ensure that this ancient writing system can be accurately represented and transmitted in modern digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0845 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Mandaic Letter Ushenna |
| Block | Mandaic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࡅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࡅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA1 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0845 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000845 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0845 |