U+1831 "ᠱ" Mongolian Letter Sha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1831 "ᠱ" Mongolian Letter Sha is a character in the Mongolian script used for writing the Mongolian language, as well as other languages like Manchu and Xibe. It represents the sound "sh" or a similar voiceless postalveolar fricative, and its shape is derived from the traditional vertical cursive writing system of Mongolia. This letter is part of the Unicode standard's Mongolian block, encoded to support digital text processing for these historically and culturally significant scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1831 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Mongolian Letter Sha |
| Block | Mongolian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᠱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᠱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA0 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1831 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001831 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1831 |