U+10468 "𐑨" Shavian Letter Ash Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐑨
U+10468 "𐑨" Shavian Letter Ash is a letter in the Shavian alphabet, a phonetic script designed for the English language as an alternative to the Latin alphabet. It represents the sound of the vowel in the word "cat" or "hat," specifically the open front unrounded vowel. This character is part of a larger set of letters intended to simplify English spelling by providing a one to one correspondence between sounds and symbols. The Shavian alphabet was commissioned by George Bernard Shaw and remains a niche but historically significant writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10468 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Shavian Letter Ash |
| Block | Shavian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐑨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐑨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x91 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC68 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010468 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc68 |