U+1045D "𐑝" Shavian Letter Vow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐑝
U+1045D "𐑝" Shavian Letter Vow is a specific glyph in the Shavian alphabet, a phonetic script designed for the English language. It represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound, corresponding to the letter "v" in the Latin alphabet, and is used to spell words like "vow" itself. The Shavian alphabet, created in the 1950s, replaced traditional lowercase and uppercase letters with a streamlined set of 48 characters, each representing a distinct phoneme to simplify reading and writing English. This particular character, named "Vow", belongs to the block of Shavian letters in the Unicode standard, ensuring its digital representation and use in modern text processing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1045D |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Shavian Letter Vow |
| Block | Shavian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐑝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐑝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x91 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC5D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001045D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc5d |