U+10456 "𐑖" Shavian Letter Sure Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

𐑖
Source: Noto Sans Shavian Source: Browser Default

U+10456 "𐑖" Shavian Letter Sure is a character from the Shavian alphabet, a phonetic writing system created in the 20th century to represent English pronunciation more consistently than the traditional Latin alphabet. Specifically, this letter denotes the "sh" sound, as heard in English words like "shoe" or "sure," and its glyph resembles an inverted or mirrored shape of the Shavian letter for the "z" sound. The Shavian alphabet was designed to map each distinct English phoneme to a unique symbol, with "Sure" being one of several letters used to write the language in a more streamlined and unambiguous manner. Though not widely adopted, the Shavian script and its characters like "𐑖" are included in Unicode to support historical and linguistic documentation.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
𐑖
HTML Hex Encoding
𐑖
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x90 0x91 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD801 0xDC56
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00010456
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud801\udc56