U+10478 "𐑸" Shavian Letter Are Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐑸
U+10478 "𐑸" Shavian Letter Are is a character from the Shavian alphabet, a phonetic script designed to represent English pronunciation more consistently than the standard Latin alphabet. This specific character, "Are," corresponds to the sound of the vowel in words like "start" or "arm," typically the open back unrounded vowel /ɑː/ in Received Pronunciation. It was created as part of the Shavian alphabet, which was commissioned by George Bernard Shaw and standardized for use in limited English texts, though it remains a specialized historical and linguistic script rather than a widely adopted writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10478 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Shavian Letter Are |
| Block | Shavian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐑸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐑸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x91 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC78 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010478 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc78 |