U+10459 "𐑙" Shavian Letter Hung Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐑙
U+10459 "𐑙" Shavian Letter Hung is a symbol from the Shavian alphabet, a phonetic writing system created for the English language to simplify spelling by using distinct characters for each sound. This specific letter represents the voiced velar nasal sound, which is the "ng" sound found at the end of words like "sing" or "long". It is classified under the Shavian block of Unicode, which was designed to support the Shavian alphabet's goal of providing a more logical and consistent representation of English pronunciation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10459 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Shavian Letter Hung |
| Block | Shavian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐑙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐑙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x91 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC59 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010459 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc59 |