U+10AE2 "𐫢" Manichaean Letter Shin Unicode Character

U+10AE2 "𐫢" Manichaean Letter Shin is a glyph from the Manichaean script, an abjad used primarily to write Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, and Uyghur languages within the Manichaean religious tradition. This character represents the sound value /ʃ/, akin to the English "sh" phoneme, and takes its name from the Semitic letter Shin, from which it was ultimately derived. The letter appears as part of the Manichaean block of the Unicode Standard, encoded to preserve the textual heritage of Manichaeism, a once widespread religion with a rich scribal culture.