U+1089D "𐢝" Nabataean Letter Shin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1089D "𐢝" Nabataean Letter Shin is a glyph representing the twenty-first letter of the Nabataean alphabet, a script used between the 2nd century BCE and the 4th century CE to write the Nabataean language, an ancient Aramaic dialect spoken by the Nabataean people of northwestern Arabia and the southern Levant. This letter corresponds to the Semitic consonant "sh" and is derived from the older Aramaic script, reflecting the Nabataean script's characteristic cursive and angular style, which later influenced the development of the Arabic alphabet. In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the Nabataean block and serves as a digital representation for scholarly texts, historical documentation, and linguistic analysis of this extinct yet historically significant writing system.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𐢝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𐢝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x90 0xA2 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD802 0xDC9D |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0001089D |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud802\udc9d |
Unicode Properties