U+1046E "𐑮" Shavian Letter Roar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+1046E "𐑮" Shavian Letter Roar is a specific glyph in the Shavian alphabet, a phonetic script designed for the English language that represents the sound of the letter "r" as in the word "roar," specifically the voiced alveolar trill or approximant depending on dialect. It is part of the Shavian block in Unicode, which was encoded to support this unique writing system created by Ronald Kingsley Read as a result of a competition funded by George Bernard Shaw. The character resembles a stylized version of a looping lowercase "r" and is used to transcribe the rhotic consonant in English, contributing to the alphabet's goal of providing a one-to-one correspondence between sounds and symbols for more consistent spelling.
General Properties
Code Point
U+1046E
Name
Shavian Letter Roar
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
𐑮
HTML Hex Encoding
𐑮
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x90 0x91 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD801 0xDC6E
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001046E
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud801\udc6e
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Shavian