U+0938 "स" Devanagari Letter Sa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
स
U+0938 "स" Devanagari Letter Sa is a fundamental consonant in the Devanagari script, representing the voiceless alveolar sibilant sound /s/ in languages such as Hindi, Sanskrit, Marathi, and Nepali. As the thirty-first consonant in the standard Devanagari syllabary, it appears in a wide range of common words, including "सूरज" meaning sun and "स्नेह" meaning affection. Visually, it is characterized by a curved top horizontal line called the shirorekha, a single vertical stem descending from it, and a small loop on the left side of the stem. This character also serves as a base for forming conjunct characters and can be modified with various diacritical marks to indicate different vowel sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0938 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Sa |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | स |
| HTML Hex Encoding | स |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0938 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000938 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0938 |