U+09B8 "স" Bengali Letter Sa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+09B8 "স" Bengali Letter Sa is the thirty-sixth consonant in the Bengali script and represents the voiceless alveolar sibilant sound /s/. It is a core character used in the Bengali language, as well as in Assamese and other languages written with the Bengali script, appearing in words both as an independent consonant and in consonant conjuncts. Its glyph features a distinctive horizontal head line and a curved body, and it is encoded in the Unicode block for Bengali, ranging from U+0980 to U+09FF, which supports the complex script's wide range of vowels, consonants, and diacritical marks.

General Properties

Code Point U+09B8
Version Added 1.1
Name Bengali Letter Sa
Block Bengali
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding স
HTML Hex Encoding স
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xA6 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x09B8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000009B8
C/C++/Java Escape \u09b8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Bengali
Script Extensions Bengali
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter