U+11A2E "𑨮" Zanabazar Square Letter Sha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑨮
U+11A2E "𑨮" Zanabazar Square Letter Sha is a letter in the Zanabazar Square script, which was historically used in the early 18th century for writing liturgical texts in the Mongolian language, as well as Tibetan and Sanskrit, especially within Buddhist traditions. This specific character represents the sound "sha" and belongs to a unique, square-shaped abugida script that was designed to facilitate the accurate and aesthetically balanced transcription of Indo Tibetan sacred texts. Though rarely used today outside of scholarly or revival contexts, it remains an important part of the Unicode Standard for preserving historical and cultural linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11A2E |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Zanabazar Square Letter Sha |
| Block | Zanabazar Square |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑨮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑨮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xA8 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDE2E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011A2E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\ude2e |