The Shavian range was introduced with version 4.0 of the Unicode Standard and is located in Plane 1 (the Supplementary Multilingual Plane). Windows XP and later versions support supplementary characters by default. In Windows 2000, you need to enable support for supplementary characters. These characters cannot easily be displayed in earlier versions of Windows.
The Shavian script is named after George Bernard Shaw, who left money in his will for a competition to produce a new alphabet for the English language. The winner was Kingsley Read, and his script is caseless and has letters that are carefully designed to represent the sounds of spoken English.
The characters that appear in the “Character” columns of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode font Andagii, Code2001, ESL Gothic Unicode, EversonMono and MPH 2B Damase.
To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap.
If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10450.pdf.
Character (decimal) | Decimal | Character (hex) | Hex | Name |
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𐑐 | 66640 | 𐑐 | 10450 | SHAVIAN LETTER PEEP |
𐑑 | 66641 | 𐑑 | 10451 | SHAVIAN LETTER TOT |
𐑒 | 66642 | 𐑒 | 10452 | SHAVIAN LETTER KICK |
𐑓 | 66643 | 𐑓 | 10453 | SHAVIAN LETTER FEE |
𐑔 | 66644 | 𐑔 | 10454 | SHAVIAN LETTER THIGH |
𐑕 | 66645 | 𐑕 | 10455 | SHAVIAN LETTER SO |
𐑖 | 66646 | 𐑖 | 10456 | SHAVIAN LETTER SURE |
𐑗 | 66647 | 𐑗 | 10457 | SHAVIAN LETTER CHURCH |
𐑘 | 66648 | 𐑘 | 10458 | SHAVIAN LETTER YEA |
𐑙 | 66649 | 𐑙 | 10459 | SHAVIAN LETTER HUNG |
𐑚 | 66650 | 𐑚 | 1045A | SHAVIAN LETTER BIB |
𐑛 | 66651 | 𐑛 | 1045B | SHAVIAN LETTER DEAD |
𐑜 | 66652 | 𐑜 | 1045C | SHAVIAN LETTER GAG |
𐑝 | 66653 | 𐑝 | 1045D | SHAVIAN LETTER VOW |
𐑞 | 66654 | 𐑞 | 1045E | SHAVIAN LETTER THEY |
𐑟 | 66655 | 𐑟 | 1045F | SHAVIAN LETTER ZOO |
𐑠 | 66656 | 𐑠 | 10460 | SHAVIAN LETTER MEASURE |
𐑡 | 66657 | 𐑡 | 10461 | SHAVIAN LETTER JUDGE |
𐑢 | 66658 | 𐑢 | 10462 | SHAVIAN LETTER WOE |
𐑣 | 66659 | 𐑣 | 10463 | SHAVIAN LETTER HA-HA |
𐑤 | 66660 | 𐑤 | 10464 | SHAVIAN LETTER LOLL |
𐑥 | 66661 | 𐑥 | 10465 | SHAVIAN LETTER MIME |
𐑦 | 66662 | 𐑦 | 10466 | SHAVIAN LETTER IF |
𐑧 | 66663 | 𐑧 | 10467 | SHAVIAN LETTER EGG |
𐑨 | 66664 | 𐑨 | 10468 | SHAVIAN LETTER ASH |
𐑩 | 66665 | 𐑩 | 10469 | SHAVIAN LETTER ADO |
𐑪 | 66666 | 𐑪 | 1046A | SHAVIAN LETTER ON |
𐑫 | 66667 | 𐑫 | 1046B | SHAVIAN LETTER WOOL |
𐑬 | 66668 | 𐑬 | 1046C | SHAVIAN LETTER OUT |
𐑭 | 66669 | 𐑭 | 1046D | SHAVIAN LETTER AH |
𐑮 | 66670 | 𐑮 | 1046E | SHAVIAN LETTER ROAR |
𐑯 | 66671 | 𐑯 | 1046F | SHAVIAN LETTER NUN |
𐑰 | 66672 | 𐑰 | 10470 | SHAVIAN LETTER EAT |
𐑱 | 66673 | 𐑱 | 10471 | SHAVIAN LETTER AGE |
𐑲 | 66674 | 𐑲 | 10472 | SHAVIAN LETTER ICE |
𐑳 | 66675 | 𐑳 | 10473 | SHAVIAN LETTER UP |
𐑴 | 66676 | 𐑴 | 10474 | SHAVIAN LETTER OAK |
𐑵 | 66677 | 𐑵 | 10475 | SHAVIAN LETTER OOZE |
𐑶 | 66678 | 𐑶 | 10476 | SHAVIAN LETTER OIL |
𐑷 | 66679 | 𐑷 | 10477 | SHAVIAN LETTER AWE |
𐑸 | 66680 | 𐑸 | 10478 | SHAVIAN LETTER ARE |
𐑹 | 66681 | 𐑹 | 10479 | SHAVIAN LETTER OR |
𐑺 | 66682 | 𐑺 | 1047A | SHAVIAN LETTER AIR |
𐑻 | 66683 | 𐑻 | 1047B | SHAVIAN LETTER ERR |
𐑼 | 66684 | 𐑼 | 1047C | SHAVIAN LETTER ARRAY |
𐑽 | 66685 | 𐑽 | 1047D | SHAVIAN LETTER EAR |
𐑾 | 66686 | 𐑾 | 1047E | SHAVIAN LETTER IAN |
𐑿 | 66687 | 𐑿 | 1047F | SHAVIAN LETTER YEW |
Copyright © 2003–2009 Alan Wood
The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 4.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2003 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode ftp site (ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in June 2003.
Created 21st July 2003 Last updated 25th November 2009