U+09B8 "স" Bengali Letter Sa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
স
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 |