U+0936 "श" Devanagari Letter Sha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
श
U+0936 "श" Devanagari Letter Sha is a consonant used in the Devanagari script, representing the voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant sound /ʃ/, similar to the 'sh' in the English word "shirt." It is part of the Devanagari block within the Unicode standard, which supports languages such as Hindi, Marathi, and Sanskrit, and it is often used in combination with vowel diacritics to form syllables. The character is written with a distinctive curved shape, including a horizontal top line that connects it to adjacent characters in a word, reflecting the typical structural features of the Devanagari script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0936 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Sha |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | श |
| HTML Hex Encoding | श |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0936 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000936 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0936 |