U+10AE3 "𐫣" Manichaean Letter Sshin Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐫣

U+10AE3 "𐫣" Manichaean Letter Sshin is a distinct glyph from the Manichaean script, an abjad historically used to write the Manichaean religion's texts, primarily in Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, and Old Uyghur languages. This character represents the sound "sh" as in the English word "ship," similar in function to the Hebrew letter Shin or the Arabic letter Sheen. It is part of the Manichaean Unicode block, which was added to the standard in 2014 to preserve and digitally represent the ancient script's rich cultural and religious heritage. The letter's form is derived from earlier Aramaic prototypes and is essential for accurately transcribing the spiritual and liturgical writings of Manichaeism, a faith founded by the prophet Mani in the 3rd century CE.

General Properties

Code Point U+10AE3
Version Added 7.0
Name Manichaean Letter Sshin
Block Manichaean
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐫣
HTML Hex Encoding 𐫣
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xAB 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDEE3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010AE3
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udee3

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Manichaean
Script Extensions Manichaean
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter