SHAVIAN LETTER NUN character

SHAVIAN LETTER NUN
U+1046F
66671
𐑯
𐑯
Lo (Letter, Other)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Shavian
1
SMP
Supplementary Multilingual Plane
10000-1FFFF
𐑯












SHAVIAN LETTER NUN is other letters, including syllables and ideographs from the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of SHAVIAN LETTER NUN is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Other Letter (Lo) refers to letters that do not fit into the uppercase, lowercase, titlecase, or modifier letter categories. These include letters from scripts that do not have case distinction, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and others. This category is also used for syllabic and ideographic characters that function as letters.

This character belongs to the Shavian block. The Shavian block contains characters used in the Shavian alphabet, an alternative alphabet for writing English, created in the mid-20th century. The alphabet was named after the playwright George Bernard Shaw, who funded a competition to create a more phonetic writing system for English. The Shavian alphabet consists of 48 characters, each representing a distinct sound in English. While it was never widely adopted, the Shavian alphabet is notable for its attempt to simplify English spelling. This block includes all the characters needed to write in the Shavian alphabet, providing an interesting example of orthographic innovation..