U+10473 "𐑳" Shavian Letter Up Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐑳
U+10473 "𐑳" Shavian Letter Up is a specific character from the Shavian alphabet, a phonetic writing system designed for the English language as a simpler alternative to the Latin alphabet. This character represents the sound of the stressed schwa vowel, commonly heard in the word "butter" or the first syllable of "upon". It was created by Ronald Kingsley Read as part of a competition funded by George Bernard Shaw to develop a more efficient spelling system that aligns letters with distinct English sounds. The Shavian alphabet, including the Letter Up, is encoded in the Unicode standard's Shavian block, allowing for digital representation and preservation of this experimental orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10473 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Shavian Letter Up |
| Block | Shavian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐑳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐑳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x91 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC73 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010473 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc73 |