U+0937 "ष" Devanagari Letter Ssa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ष
U+0937 "ष" Devanagari Letter Ssa is a consonant in the Devanagari script used for writing languages such as Hindi, Sanskrit, and Marathi, representing a retroflex sibilant sound that is pronounced with the tongue curled back against the roof of the mouth, similar to the "sh" in "shell" but with a distinct retroflex quality. It forms the 30th character of the Devanagari consonantal alphabet and appears in words like "कृष्ण" (Krishna) and "भाषा" (language), often combining with other consonants through ligatures or vowel diacritics to produce various syllabic forms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0937 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Ssa |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ष |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ष |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0937 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000937 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0937 |