U+1051C "𐔜" Elbasan Letter She Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐔜
U+1051C "𐔜" Elbasan Letter She is a letter used in the Elbasan script, an alphabetic writing system created in the 18th century for the Albanian language. It represents the sound equivalent to the English "sh" and is part of a historically significant alphabet developed by the Albanian scholar and bishop Gregory of Durrës. This letter, along with the rest of the Elbasan script, was primarily used in religious texts and manuscripts to transcribe Albanian, reflecting a unique cultural and linguistic heritage before the adoption of the modern Latin-based Albanian alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1051C |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Elbasan Letter She |
| Block | Elbasan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐔜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐔜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x94 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD1C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001051C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd1c |