U+1047E "𐑾" Shavian Letter Ian Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐑾
U+1047E "𐑾" Shavian Letter Ian is a specific letter from the Shavian alphabet, a phonetic alphabet created in the 1950s to provide a more consistent representation of English pronunciation than the Latin alphabet. This character represents the sound of the diphthong "ɪə" as in the word "ear" or "near," functioning as a vowel in the Shavian writing system. As part of the Shavian block in Unicode, it is used in texts designed to demonstrate or utilize this alternative script, which aims to simplify spelling by mapping each distinct English sound to a single letter.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1047E |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Shavian Letter Ian |
| Block | Shavian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐑾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐑾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x91 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC7E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001047E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc7e |