U+10F41 "𐽁" Sogdian Letter Shin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐽁
U+10F41 "𐽁" Sogdian Letter Shin is a character from the Sogdian script, an ancient writing system used to represent the Sogdian language, an Eastern Iranian language once spoken across Central Asia along the Silk Road. This letter specifically represents the sound "sh" or "š" and belongs to the Sogdian alphabet, which was adapted from the Aramaic script and later influenced the development of the Old Uyghur and Mongolian alphabets. The character is classified under the Sogdian block of Unicode, which was added to the standard to preserve historical and linguistic heritage, enabling digital representation of this extinct language's texts on modern devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10F41 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Sogdian Letter Shin |
| Block | Sogdian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐽁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐽁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xBD 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDF41 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010F41 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udf41 |