U+3115 "ㄕ" Bopomofo Letter Sh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㄕ
U+3115 "ㄕ" Bopomofo Letter Sh is a phonetic symbol used in the Bopomofo (Zhuyin Fuhao) system, which is employed in Taiwan to transcribe the sounds of Mandarin Chinese. This character specifically represents the retroflex sound "sh," as heard in the Mandarin word for "teacher" (shī). It is part of the Unicode block dedicated to Bopomofo, located in the Basic Multilingual Plane, and is commonly utilized in educational materials, dictionaries, and input methods for learning and typing Mandarin pronunciation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3115 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bopomofo Letter Sh |
| Block | Bopomofo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㄕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㄕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x84 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3115 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003115 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3115 |