U+1045F "𐑟" Shavian Letter Zoo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐑟
U+1045F "𐑟" Shavian Letter Zoo is a glyph from the Shavian alphabet, a phonetic writing system designed for the English language, and it represents the voiced sibilant consonant sound /z/, as heard in the word "zoo." Conceived by George Bernard Shaw and funded by his estate, the alphabet was intended to simplify English spelling by matching letters to sounds, and this specific character is the 49th letter of the 48 letter script, with an extra for the vowel sound. Its shape, a curved, downward stroke with a loop, visually hints at the buzzing motion of its namesake animal, making it a direct, mnemonic link between the written symbol and its phonetic value.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1045F |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Shavian Letter Zoo |
| Block | Shavian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐑟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐑟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x91 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC5F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001045F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc5f |