U+10462 "𐑢" Shavian Letter Woe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐑢
U+10462 "𐑢" Shavian Letter Woe is a specific glyph within the Shavian alphabet, a phonetic script designed for the English language. It represents the voiced labio-velar approximant sound, which is the same as the English letter "w" in words like "wet" or "wow." This letter was part of the original Shavian alphabet created to provide a simple, one symbol per sound system for English, intended to reduce spelling irregularities. In Unicode, it resides in the Shavian block, which was added to support digital representation of this historical writing system, allowing for its use in modern text processing and typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10462 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Shavian Letter Woe |
| Block | Shavian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐑢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐑢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x91 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC62 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010462 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc62 |