U+10875 "๐กต" Palmyrene Letter Shin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
๐กต
U+10875 "๐กต" Palmyrene Letter Shin is the twenty-second letter of the Palmyrene alphabet, a script used from the 1st century BCE to the 3rd century CE in the city of Palmyra and surrounding regions in Syria to write a dialect of Aramaic. This character represents the sound /ส/, similar to the English "sh", and is derived from the earlier Aramaic script, corresponding to the Hebrew letter Shin. The Palmyrene script, including the letter Shin, was typically written from right to left and appears in inscriptions on stone monuments and tombs, reflecting the language of the wealthy trading city's commercial and cultural life before its decline.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10875 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Palmyrene Letter Shin |
| Block | Palmyrene |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐡵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐡵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC75 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010875 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc75 |