U+111AF "𑆯" Sharada Letter Sha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑆯
U+111AF "𑆯" Sharada Letter Sha is a character from the Sharada script, an abugida historically used to write the Kashmiri, Sanskrit, and other languages in the Kashmir region of the Indian subcontinent. This specific letter represents the consonant sound "sha" and belongs to the script's set of basic consonants, which are written with an inherent vowel sound unless modified by diacritical marks. The Sharada script, now largely replaced by other writing systems, is recognized in Unicode as a vital part of the historical and cultural heritage of South Asian paleography, preserving textual traditions from ancient and medieval manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+111AF |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Sharada Letter Sha |
| Block | Sharada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑆯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑆯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x86 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDDAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000111AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\uddaf |