U+10AE2 "𐫢" Manichaean Letter Shin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐫢
U+10AE2 "𐫢" Manichaean Letter Shin is a glyph from the Manichaean script, an abjad used primarily to write Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, and Uyghur languages within the Manichaean religious tradition. This character represents the sound value /ʃ/, akin to the English "sh" phoneme, and takes its name from the Semitic letter Shin, from which it was ultimately derived. The letter appears as part of the Manichaean block of the Unicode Standard, encoded to preserve the textual heritage of Manichaeism, a once widespread religion with a rich scribal culture.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10AE2 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Manichaean Letter Shin |
| Block | Manichaean |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐫢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐫢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAB 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDEE2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010AE2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udee2 |