U+10F19 "𐼙" Old Sogdian Letter Shin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐼙
U+10F19 "𐼙" Old Sogdian Letter Shin is a grapheme from the Old Sogdian script, an ancient writing system used primarily for the Sogdian language, which was an Eastern Iranian language spoken in Central Asia from roughly the 2nd to the 12th centuries CE. This letter represents the phoneme /ʃ/ and corresponds to the sound "sh" in English, making it essential for writing Sogdian words that contained this consonant. The character reflects a cursive, right-to-left script that influenced later writing systems, such as the Uyghur and Mongolian alphabets, highlighting the cultural and linguistic exchanges along the Silk Road.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10F19 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Old Sogdian Letter Shin |
| Block | Old Sogdian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐼙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐼙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xBC 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDF19 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010F19 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udf19 |