U+10455 "𐑕" Shavian Letter So Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐑕
U+10455 "𐑕" Shavian Letter So is one of the letters in the Shavian alphabet, a phonetic writing system designed in the mid-20th century to represent the sounds of English more consistently than the traditional Latin alphabet. This specific character corresponds to the "s" sound, as in the word "so" itself, and its distinctive curved shape reflects the script's focus on simple, flowing glyphs that visually differentiate each phoneme. The Shavian alphabet was commissioned by George Bernard Shaw and is occasionally used by enthusiasts for writing English phonetically, though it never achieved widespread adoption.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10455 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Shavian Letter So |
| Block | Shavian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐑕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐑕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x91 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC55 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010455 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc55 |