U+1046E "𐑮" Shavian Letter Roar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐑮
U+1046E "𐑮" Shavian Letter Roar is a specific glyph in the Shavian alphabet, a phonetic script designed for the English language that represents the sound of the letter "r" as in the word "roar," specifically the voiced alveolar trill or approximant depending on dialect. It is part of the Shavian block in Unicode, which was encoded to support this unique writing system created by Ronald Kingsley Read as a result of a competition funded by George Bernard Shaw. The character resembles a stylized version of a looping lowercase "r" and is used to transcribe the rhotic consonant in English, contributing to the alphabet's goal of providing a one-to-one correspondence between sounds and symbols for more consistent spelling.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1046E |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Shavian Letter Roar |
| Block | Shavian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐑮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐑮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x91 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC6E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001046E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc6e |