U+1061 "ၡ" Myanmar Letter Sgaw Karen Sha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ၡ
U+1061 "ၡ" Myanmar Letter Sgaw Karen Sha is a distinctive glyph used primarily within the Sgaw Karen language, which is spoken by the Karen people in Myanmar and parts of Thailand. This character represents a specific consonant sound, often transcribed as "sh," and belongs to the Myanmar script block in Unicode, where it aids in accurately rendering the unique phonetic and orthographic requirements of Sgaw Karen. Its inclusion in the standard ensures that digital text, documents, and communication in this underrepresented language can be properly encoded and displayed across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1061 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Myanmar Letter Sgaw Karen Sha |
| Block | Myanmar |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ၡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ၡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x81 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1061 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001061 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1061 |