U+10472 "𐑲" Shavian Letter Ice Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐑲
U+10472 "𐑲" Shavian Letter Ice is a specific glyph within the Shavian alphabet, an artificial script designed for the English language to achieve phonetic spelling with a one-to-one correspondence between sounds and symbols. This character represents the long "i" vowel sound as heard in the English word "ice," serving as a visual and phonetic counterpart to the traditional Latin letter combination "I" or "eye." Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that it can be digitally represented, stored, and displayed across devices and software, preserving a specialized writing system created by George Bernard Shaw and his benefactors for more efficient English literacy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10472 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Shavian Letter Ice |
| Block | Shavian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐑲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐑲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x91 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC72 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010472 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc72 |