U+11030 "ð‘€°" Brahmi Letter Sha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+11030 "ð‘€°" Brahmi Letter Sha is a glyph representing a consonant from the ancient Brahmi script, one of the earliest writing systems used in the Indian subcontinent to write various Prakrit and Sanskrit texts. This character corresponds to the voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant sound "sha," similar to the "sh" in the English word "ship," and is a fundamental component of the Brahmi syllabary. It was encoded in the Brahmi block of Unicode as part of the effort to digitally preserve historical South Asian scripts, enabling scholars and enthusiasts to accurately render inscriptions and manuscripts from the Mauryan period and later. The letter also serves as a crucial link to later South and Southeast Asian scripts, such as Devanagari and Grantha, which evolved from Brahmi and contain direct descendants of this character.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𑀰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𑀰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x91 0x80 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD804 0xDC30 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00011030 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud804\udc30 |
Unicode Properties