U+1919 "ᤙ" Limbu Letter Sha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᤙ
U+1919 "ᤙ" Limbu Letter Sha is a distinct consonant in the Limbu script, which is used to write the Limbu language spoken primarily in Nepal and parts of India. This character represents the voiceless postalveolar fricative sound /ʃ/, similar to the "sh" in the English word "ship". It is part of the Limbu block in Unicode, which was added to support the preservation and digital rendering of this endangered Tibeto-Burman language's unique writing system. The letter originates from the indigenous Limbu alphabet, traditionally used for religious texts, correspondence, and cultural documentation, and its inclusion in Unicode helps facilitate modern communication and archiving for the Limbu community.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1919 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Limbu Letter Sha |
| Block | Limbu |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᤙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᤙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA4 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1919 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001919 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1919 |