U+102AE "𐊮" Carian Letter Sh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐊮
U+102AE "𐊮" Carian Letter Sh is a script character from the Carian alphabet, an ancient writing system developed in the region of Caria in western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) during the first millennium BCE. This particular letter represents the sound "š," similar to the English "sh," and forms part of the syllabic-like script used to write the Carian language, which remains only partially deciphered. Inscribed on stone monuments, coins, and pottery, the character is encoded in the Unicode Standard within the Carian block, allowing for its digital representation and study in modern typography and linguistics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+102AE |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Carian Letter Sh |
| Block | Carian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐊮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐊮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8A 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDEAE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000102AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udeae |