U+10458 "𐑘" Shavian Letter Yea Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐑘
U+10458 "𐑘" Shavian Letter Yea is a symbol from the Shavian alphabet, a phonetic writing system designed for the English language to replace the Latin alphabet. This specific character represents the "y" sound, as in the word "yes," and is used in Shavian orthography to transcribe the voiced palatal approximant phoneme. The Shavian alphabet was created by Ronald Kingsley Read in the 1960s following a competition initiated by George Bernard Shaw, who advocated for a more rational and efficient script for English.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10458 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Shavian Letter Yea |
| Block | Shavian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐑘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐑘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x91 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC58 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010458 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc58 |