U+10457 "𐑗" Shavian Letter Church Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐑗
U+10457 "𐑗" Shavian Letter Church is a phonetic letter within the Shavian alphabet, which was designed to represent the distinct speech sound of the English consonant digraph "ch" as heard in the word "church." This character is part of the Shavian block of Unicode, a script created in the mid-20th century by Kingsley Read as a phonemic alternative to the Latin alphabet, aiming to improve English literacy and simplify spelling. Its specific shape combines a tall, curved vertical stroke with a small counterclockwise loop at the top, visually symbolizing the unvoiced palato-alveolar affricate sound it represents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10457 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Shavian Letter Church |
| Block | Shavian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐑗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐑗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x91 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010457 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc57 |