U+10914 "𐤔" Phoenician Letter Shin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐤔
U+10914 "𐤔" Phoenician Letter Shin is a glyph representing the twenty-first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which was the direct ancestor of the Greek, Latin, and many other writing systems. Its name, "Shin," means "tooth" in Phoenician, and the letter originally depicted a pictograph of a tooth or a bow, later evolving into a simplified linear symbol that represented the "sh" sound. This character is part of the Phoenician Unicode block, which encodes the script used across the ancient Mediterranean from roughly the 12th to the 1st centuries BCE, making it a key artifact for studying the history of writing and the transmission of alphabetic systems to later cultures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10914 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phoenician Letter Shin |
| Block | Phoenician |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐤔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐤔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA4 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDD14 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010914 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udd14 |